So, I’m staring at my screen, and the word "Aster" is everywhere. One minute, I'm reading about some low-growing, drought-tough perennial flower that butterflies apparently love. Y...
So, the crypto circus is back in town. Green candles are ripping across the screen, your friend who bought Bitcoin at $108k last week is suddenly a financial guru, and every analys...
Of all the incredible words in science, "plasma" might just be the most misunderstood. You hear it and maybe you think of donating blood to save a life, a vital and noble act. You...
MicroStrategy Dodges a Tax Bullet, and We're Supposed to Pretend This Is Normal Let me get this straight. A company’s stock jumps over 5% not because they invented something, not b...
I was staring at a network architecture diagram the other day—a beautiful, impossibly complex web of servers, nodes, and data pathways that powers a tiny fraction of our digital li...
An analysis often begins with an anomaly. In my case, the anomaly was a single word appearing in three distinct and uncorrelated data streams within a short time frame: "Adrena." T...
So, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power suddenly wants to be your best friend. They’ve announced a new program to slap solar panels and a big, shiny battery onto your hou...
I want you to think about the last time a system truly failed you. Maybe it was a power grid in a storm, a supply chain during a crisis, or just a piece of software that refused to...
The announcement, when it arrived, felt like an outlier in a dataset of corporate branding. Kraft Heinz, the conglomerate that owns a significant portion of the American pantry, de...
For years, we’ve thought of the `doordash app` as a simple utility. A digital button we press when hunger strikes. You tap, a `dasher` arrives, you eat. It was a transaction, a mod...