What I find most disappointing isn't simply that Google has become more corporate. It's that Google has become less considerate.

Our job is to listen. To serve. To argue when we must, but to do so with respect. To remember that behind every issue is a person, a family, a neighbor, or a future neighbor.

On Pan-Mass Challenge weekend, riders are often asked why they do it. I’ve fallen into the routine of giving my stock answer of “too many of my friends and families have suffered with the disease, and I couldn’t sit idly by and not do something about it.” The statement is true. The feelings behind it are true. But it doesn’t paint the whole picture of why I ride. Nor, I’m guessing, is it why most people partake in the event.

What do we owe the future? From the Svalbard Global Seed Vault to the vision of ALEX, the Archive of Living Experience, explore why preserving humanity's stories may become civilization's next great institution.

No one should ever tell you who you can and cannot love. As an RTM member, friend, father, and neighbor, I believe allyship means helping build a Westport where LGBTQ people are not merely tolerated, but fully welcomed, valued, and celebrated.

When I was at the University of Miami, I used to stare at the Biltmore Hotel in the distance and think, why isn’t that part of the school?

Years later, with AI reshaping nearly every industry, I keep coming back to that same thought.

Because while machines may get better at writing, analyzing, scheduling, and optimizing, they will never truly understand what it means to welcome someone.

Hospitality may not be the opposite of AI.

It may be the answer to it.

What I love about this whole project is that it started as a joke, became an experiment, turned into a political outlet, then slowly evolved into something more generous, more musical, and more personal. It became a way to rescue old lyrics and melodies from oblivion. It became a way to collaborate with tools that did not exist when I first started writing songs. It became a way to hear versions of songs I never could have made by myself.

For a while, we thought efficiency was the goal. Faster, cheaper, scalable, optimized.

But human beings don’t actually love efficiency. We love meaning.

And if AI takes the work we have to do, it might finally give us back the time to do the work we want to do, the slow, imperfect, deeply human act of making something with our hands again.

One of the strangest things about the modern information ecosystem is that trust is collapsing from both directions.

A moonshot proposal for solving the AI energy crisis through Earth-synchronous computing: modular terrestrial and underwater data centers, renewable energy time-shifting, liquid cooling, and waste-heat reuse to cut costs, carbon emissions, and grid strain at scale.