May 6, 2025

AI is taking over online searches. At the moment, that’s good news – the AI summaries are increasingly reliable and helpful. In the long term, they might be so good that paradoxically, they contribute to the enshittification of the internet. It’s a big, complicated, nuanced AI world! Let’s go through a little history, then talk…

April 22, 2025

Weight loss drugs effectively regulate impulse control – and the effects go far beyond snack food. Our economy is built on impulse purchases. The secondary effects of GLP-1 drugs will cause what has been called a “$100 trillion dollar disruption.” I’m not talking about societal changes deep in the future. Much of this is on…

April 8, 2025

We’re going to dive down a rabbit hole into the world of collecting Lewis Carroll books. You know the phrase “going down a rabbit hole” comes from Alice In Wonderland, right? Book collecting has been called “a gentle madness.” Maybe you’ve known a collector – but do you really know what specific insanity drove that…

April 1, 2025

On July 18, 1874, Lewis Carroll was on a morning walk when a sentence popped into his head: “For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.” That thought led to one of the greatest works of English literature that you’ve never heard of. It had been ten years since Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland had been…