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I keep thinking about where she said it, and how hopeful it was.She said it to a room of people who draw the lines for a living. The San Diego Convention Center, the second week of July, the plenary hall of the Esri User Conference. Esri is a software company from Redlands, California, ninety miles up the freeway from where we were sitting, and Jack Dangermond and his wife Laura started it in 196…
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The plan was Four Corners. You stand on a painted circle and put a hand in Arizona, a hand in New Mexico, a foot in Utah, a foot in Colorado, and for one silly minute you are in f…
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I take two walks a day now, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, a habit I built somewhere in the second year of the pandemic and never gave up. The earbuds go in, the san…
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The Watch Came in a Jewelry Box | Lessons from the Titan StoryThe Watch Came in a Jewelry BoxThe first watch I ever bought for myself came after I got married, and I bought it wit…
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When I speak at conferences, people often tell me I did a great job. My first thought, before I even finish hearing the sentence, is that they're being polite.
I've decide…
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Analysis · Enterprise AI · June 2026Three companies released data about AI and human oversight in the same week. None of them coordinated. All three pointed in the same direction.…
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Saturday afternoon, nothing on Netflix worth clicking, Prime suggesting the same rotation of prestige drama I'd already half-watched. I went looking instead. That's how I …
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