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Roger
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Writing short essays on how people think and change.
Interested in what persists. What resists. And what is next.
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We have greater problems to solve than deciding whether the singularity has arrived.

No matter how capable the machine, the future still depends on us.

#AI #CollectiveIntelligence #Future

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We Are All Cyborgs Now
No matter how capable the machine, the future still depends on us.
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August 5, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Some workplace conversations look very different once you have been inside an organization long enough. Who speaks, who doesn't, and what we may be missing.

#WorkplaceCulture #HumanBehavior #Seniority #OrganizationalBehavior

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What Security Allows
What changes when you have less to lose
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August 1, 2026 at 4:41 AM
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The tape survived the fire. The printout said the backup was verified. All we had to do was restore it.

#DataRecovery #DisasterRecovery

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The Backup Was Verified
The tape survived, the problem came later.
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July 29, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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Insecurity can reduce motivation while increasing compliance. Management models provide the theory, but what if we have “A Model, Half Kept”?

#WorkplaceCulture #Management

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A Model, Half Kept
What management theory explains and what organizations ignore.
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July 23, 2026 at 4:43 AM
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AI can generate reports and recommendations. Agents can now perform actions as well. But after an incident, who is responsible for the action the agent took?

#cybersecurity #agenticAI #incidentresponse #governance

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Generative AI Cannot Attend the Post-Incident Review
Anthropic’s August 2025 threat report put a name on a shift that was already underway.
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July 10, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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My students know my thoughts on getting old.

Now you do too. Don't get old.

#Teaching #LifelongLearning #Technology #Writing #Essay

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Aging Is Fine.
Getting Old Is Optional. Don't get old – that's my advice.
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June 28, 2026 at 3:36 AM
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A short essay about park etiquette, public trash cans, and the final thirty feet of responsibility.

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Almost Responsible
There is something especially strange about abandoned dog-poop bags.
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June 26, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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Microsoft banned a user from Github for not following Microsoft's version of "Responsible Disclosure".

What is "responsible?" Now attackers have the code. I don't.

How do we defend?

#Cybersecurity #ZeroDay #ResponsibleDisclosure #SecurityGovernance #WindowsSecurity

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A Zero-Day Is Only New to the People Who Did Not Know
In March 2017, MS17–010 looked like another urgent Windows patch.
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June 16, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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Last night I downloaded RavenX-CyberAgent from Hugging Face. I tested it. And came to this conclusion -> we need to be much more vigilant with baseline security.

#Cybersecurity #AI #ThreatModeling #InfoSec

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When Script Kiddies Get a Tutor
Discovery note: capable local offensive-security models are now part of the threat landscape
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June 8, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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On May 25th Pope Leo released his first Encyclical. I recommend reading it. The document is less interested in making technology religious than in asking whether technology is making society less human.

My thoughts are here: medium.com/p/i-read-the...

#Education #TechnologyEthics #Responsibility
I Read the Pope Because of Tolkien. I Stayed Because of the Argument.
Yesterday I read something I didn’t expect to read. The Pope’s 20260515-magnifica-humanitas.
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June 2, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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I just published People Are Not Horses: The Point We Keep Missing medium.com/p/people-are...

People are not horses. But institutions can still treat labour as replaceable technology.

#AI #Automation #FutureOfWork #Education
People Are Not Horses: The Point We Keep Missing
My son is concerned about his future.
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May 23, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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A cash register was useful. The workflow around it was the problem. That old lesson sent me into calculators, GPS, and AI. What happens when verification disappears?

#AI #Writing #Technology #Education

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When Tools Build Understanding — and When They Borrow It
A cash register was a valuable tool, but mistakes were costly. A step was missing. The same step that is often missed with AI tools.
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April 16, 2026 at 3:50 AM
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I wrote a short piece about a strange new writing pressure: cutting useful parts of a sentence because they now sound “AI-like.”

#Writing #AI #Writers #Authorship #Style

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The Absurdity of Surrender
Machines learned our habits. Now writers are hiding them to avoid sounding AI-generated.
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March 31, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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The web still works. But it no longer assumes you belong there. Verification now comes before welcome.

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Post-Bot Era: Verification Before Welcome
In a post-bot internet, suspicion is ambient. The web still looks open, but now it checks, scores, and verifies before it welcomes.
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March 25, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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A parrot trained a dog in my house.
A student trained me in class.
An assistant once taught an administrator how organizations really work.

Negotiated coexistence turns out to be everywhere.

How systems actually stabilize

#SystemsThinking #HumanBehavior #Leadership

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Negotiated Coexistence A parrot teaches a dog. People teach each other.
From parrots and dogs to classrooms, streets, and offices, stable systems emerge when people negotiate boundaries rather than enforce them.
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March 17, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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Rules matter less than what gets enforced.

A parrot cage, a dog, a cat, and a small lesson about how boundaries become real.

#AI #governance #boundaries #systems #trust #compliance #learning #policy

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The Lesson That Sticks
Our dog, Tako, doesn’t hide his emotions.
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March 10, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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A clean graph. A fluent answer. No mechanism.

Counterfeit Fluency looks at how coherence feels like truth — in politics and generative AI.

#AI #CognitiveBias #CriticalThinking

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Counterfeit Fluency When Coherence Feels Like Truth
When language feels finished, we stop checking it. Counterfeit Fluency explores why coherence can replace constraint.
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February 26, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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You can declare authority.
You can’t manufacture legitimacy.

A cat on a dining table explains the difference.

Authority, Autonomy and a Cat on a Table

#Leadership #Power #Institutions #Autonomy #Systems

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Jurisdiction Authority, Autonomy and a Cat on a Table
You can declare authority. You can’t manufacture legitimacy. A cat explains the difference.
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February 24, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Words don’t carry a single meaning. They carry a cloud.

LLMs don’t “misunderstand” — they complete from whichever meaning has the most weight.

That’s not magic. It’s accumulation.

#AI #LLMs #Language #Meaning #Writing #PromptEngineering

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A Cloud of Correlated Meanings
I was watching an LLM drift across thousands of tokens when I noticed something: context smearing. The window was large, and the model had…
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February 18, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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We regulate advertising.
We regulate disclosure.

But product design is quietly becoming governance.

Formatting, defaults, tone are policy decisions.

Most of them were never debated.

#AI #AIGovernance #DesignMatters #DigitalPower #TechEthics

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When Help Becomes Influence
The Missing Piece: AI doesn’t just answer questions. It decides what will feel right before we ask.
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February 12, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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When exclusion isn’t intentional but procedural, “taking action” often fails.

This essay is about how to preserve agency when systems can’t hear you — and why choosing where to spend your voice is already a form of leadership.

#Work #Institutions #Leadership #Burnout

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Picking Your Battles: Navigating Systems That Can’t Hear You
What can you do when exclusion isn’t intentional, but process? This essay is about where to spend your voice when systems can’t hear you.
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February 10, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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Bias isn’t always loud or ideological. Sometimes it’s procedural — and invisible until you know where to look.

This essay starts with a small example and follows it to a bigger question.

#AI #Bias #Systems #CriticalThinking #Education #TechEthics

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Bias You Can Notice vs Bias You Can’t
Influence doesn’t start with persuasion. It starts with what feels finished. This essay examines how help becomes steering.
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February 5, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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Fluency used to be earned.
Now it arrives instantly.

This essay is about what happens when language sounds confident without ever having been grounded—and why that matters more than whether the output is “correct.”

#AI #Thinking #Essays #Fluency

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When Fluency Detaches — Abstraction Without Consequence
An essay on abstraction, AI, and why governance begins where fluency feels easiest.
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February 3, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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Correct answers can arrive long before understanding does.

Grokking is the part that changes what comes next.

#Learning #AI #Essays

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Grokking
Correctness isn’t enough — Real learning resists speed
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January 30, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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Forgetting isn’t just loss.
Sometimes it’s relief.

This essay asks what that relief quietly favors — and who ends up carrying what the system lets fade.

#AI #Essays #Thinking

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Forgetting is Not Neutral
Forgetting isn’t just something humans do, it’s something systems are built to do. The challenge is when to forget.
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January 28, 2026 at 2:29 PM