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Let Google, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude etc find your Substack

Let Google, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude etc find your Substack

The Pitching Experiment: Can Academic Rigor Crack the Prestige Pipeline?

Or can Bear get published outside of Substack?

Or can Bear get published outside of Substack?

The $165 Billion Question: What The Economist Got Right (and Terribly Wrong) About Education Technology

A response to "Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless"

A response to "Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless"

When Sesame Street Costs Five Dollars

The Production Collapse Nobody Saw ComingA Response to CriticsI published an essay titled “How a Paper Quilling Frog Video Reveals the Future of Personalized Learning.” The piece described a YouTube...

The Black Box

What language models can tell you about your brand

What language models can tell you about your brand

The Synthetic Audit

Using personas to validate survey questions

Using personas to validate survey questions

Conversations with Dead Letters

The Archive Reanimated

The Archive Reanimated

The Cognitive Commons

How a Paper Quilling Frog Video Reveals the Future of Personalized Learning

How a Paper Quilling Frog Video Reveals the Future of Personalized Learning

The Weight of a Word

Why Changing Seven Lines in a 125-Year-Old Song Still Matters

Why Changing Seven Lines in a 125-Year-Old Song Still Matters

The Ladder of Judgement

Why the Most Important Chart in AI Measures the Wrong Thing

Why the Most Important Chart in AI Measures the Wrong Thing

The Invisible Confession

How Stock Prices Reveal What Politicians Won't Admit

How Stock Prices Reveal What Politicians Won't Admit

When Democracy Becomes a Math Equation

Trump grants tariff breaks to 'politically connected' companies, Senate Dems say

Trump grants tariff breaks to 'politically connected' companies, Senate Dems say

A User's Guide to High Crimes

What exactly is a "high crime?"

What exactly is a "high crime?"

Wagwan Gödel: The Proof That Broke Mathematics

Teaching Incompleteness with a reggae rhythm

Teaching Incompleteness with a reggae rhythm

The Woman Who Taught a Movement to Distrust Leaders

How Ella Baker built the architecture of American protest-and why her name should terrify anyone who calls themselves a "visionary"

How Ella Baker built the architecture of American protest-and why her name should terrify anyone who calls themselves a "visionary"

The Song That Nobody Actually Sang

How Bella Ciao become the anti-facist anthem

How Bella Ciao become the anti-facist anthem

Obsolescence vs. Transformation: Programming Jobs Are Not "Disappearing" in 12 Months

What Anthropic's CEO Actually Meant

What Anthropic's CEO Actually Meant

The Problem is the Teacher, Not AI

Or: How to Design Pools Instead of Puddles

Or: How to Design Pools Instead of Puddles

Why Does Trump Want Greenland, Exactly?

When a NATO ally offers you everything you claim to need, and you threaten invasion instead, you reveal what you actually wanted all along.

When a NATO ally offers you everything you claim to need, and you threaten invasion instead, you reveal what you actually wanted all along.

Eyes That Won't See

The data tells us that a few more open eyes can change civil rights forever

The data tells us that a few more open eyes can change civil rights forever

The Label Says Democracy. The Ingredients Say Oligarchy

A blind test of America's economic data reveals a disturbing truth: Strip away the names, and the United States looks more like Russia than Norway.

A blind test of America's economic data reveals a disturbing truth: Strip away the names, and the United States looks more like Russia than Norway.

The 99% Solution: How Amazon Bought a Masterpiece Rating for the Worst-Reviewed Documentary in History

How Can a Movie with a 7% Critics Score Get a 99% Audience Rating?

How Can a Movie with a 7% Critics Score Get a 99% Audience Rating?

The Price of Certainty: What NVIDIA's Options Chain Reveals About Waiting

Resisting instincts to rely on data

Resisting instincts to rely on data

Learning to See the Invisible: How One Professor Turned Baldwin's Most Dangerous Idea Into a Song

When a 62-year-old essay about American complicity became a viral track, it revealed something urgent about how we actually learn what we'd rather not know

When a 62-year-old essay about American complicity became a viral track, it revealed something urgent about how we actually learn what we'd rather not know

When Options Markets Whisper: A Professor's Experiment in Reading Institutional Fear

A real-time test of whether retail investors can decode the hidden language of professional traders

A real-time test of whether retail investors can decode the hidden language of professional traders

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Calculating the Statistical Probability of Innocence

Calculating the Statistical Probability of Innocence

The Strategic Vulnerability of Poetic Justice: Using Children as Political Props

The collateral damage of Judicial Performance Art

The collateral damage of Judicial Performance Art

I Was Today Years Old When I Learned "Protestant" Comes From "Protest-ant"

Religion as a Mechanism of State Oppression

Religion as a Mechanism of State Oppression

The Medic's Voice: AI, Faith, and the Ethics of Looking Away

RIP William Newton Brown

RIP William Newton Brown

When the Cloud Runs Dry: Making Protest Music for a Massacre Under Blackout

Come, Let Us Weep بیا، بگذار گریه کنیم The question is not whether one song matters. The question is whether silence is acceptable.

Come, Let Us Weep بیا، بگذار گریه کنیم The question is not whether one song matters. The question is whether silence is acceptable.

1961 Freedom Rides and the Transformation of American Jurisprudence

How thirteen people with two buses and a legal principle forced America to enforce its own Constitution-and built the architecture of modern protest

How thirteen people with two buses and a legal principle forced America to enforce its own Constitution-and built the architecture of modern protest

My Childish Protest Song

A song about somebody who I do not like

A song about somebody who I do not like

Trump's America: The Spectacle of Repression

Between 2.1% and 3.5% lies the arithmetic of regime change. Inside the race between mass mobilization and digital authoritarianism in Trump's second term.

Between 2.1% and 3.5% lies the arithmetic of regime change. Inside the race between mass mobilization and digital authoritarianism in Trump's second term.

Socratic Prompting: The Midwifery of Thought

Why the best AI tutors know when to refuse answers-and what 2,500-year-old philosophy teaches us about machine learning

Why the best AI tutors know when to refuse answers-and what 2,500-year-old philosophy teaches us about machine learning

The 3-3-2 Split: Why Your Job Search is Probably Backwards

Why spending 8 hours a day on applications is killing your search-and the data-driven framework that actually works

Why spending 8 hours a day on applications is killing your search-and the data-driven framework that actually works

The Inversion: Why Software Engineers Are Now Conductors

Here is the conductor’s secret: she is not there to make the orchestra sound good. She is there to take responsibility when it sounds bad.

Here is the conductor’s secret: she is not there to make the orchestra sound good. She is there to take responsibility when it sounds bad.

Re-engineering Higher Education for the AI Economy

Why Universities Need Their Skunk Works

Why Universities Need Their Skunk Works

80 Days to Stay - Connecting Recent Grads to Hidden Tech Jobs

How one professor turned SEC filings into a 30,000-company database connecting international talent to funded startups before their visa deadlines expire

How one professor turned SEC filings into a 30,000-company database connecting international talent to funded startups before their visa deadlines expire

Can AI Help Detect Ghost Jobs by Treating Them as a Kind of Spam?

Ghost jobs are spam. We solved email spam with filters. Now we're using the same mathematics-Bayesian probability, survival analysis, and reputation scores-to catch phantom job postings

Ghost jobs are spam. We solved email spam with filters. Now we're using the same mathematics-Bayesian probability, survival analysis, and reputation scores-to catch phantom job postings

What Is a Ghost Job-and Why Do They Exist?

An investigative report on the phantom economy costing job seekers 47 hours per search-and corrupting national labor policy

An investigative report on the phantom economy costing job seekers 47 hours per search-and corrupting national labor policy

What is Computational Skepticism?

When AI can fabricate claims in seconds but verification takes days, truth loses by attrition. Here's how to fight back.

When AI can fabricate claims in seconds but verification takes days, truth loses by attrition. Here's how to fight back.

The Collapse of Traditional Resume - Credibility Signaling in the Age of Generative AI

ChatGPT broke hiring. Now what?

ChatGPT broke hiring. Now what?

Job apocalypse? Not yet. Thinking has become the #1 job skill

The automation age demands deeper thinking, not less of it

The automation age demands deeper thinking, not less of it

You’re sitting in a conference room when your CFO presents the numbers. The AI chatbot can handle 67% of customer support tickets. Simple math: 67% of tickets means you need 67% fewer people. Cut the...