Thoughts and Musings
Personal essays, musings, and reflections on a variety of topics. Gain unique perspectives and insights from thoughtful commentary and analysis.
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Guardrails & Gigawatts
A utility‑focused synthesis of six signals from Sam Altman’s conversation with Vinod Khosla. It argues for agent‑driven workflows, the convergence of compute and electricity costs, and the moats that endure—unique data, real‑time integration, and culture. The piece emphasizes guardrails, governance, and new workforce roles to build an AI–energy flywheel at the grid edge.
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The Skill that Outgrows the Tool
This article explores why relying on tool mastery is a risky career move in 2026. As AI begins to automate entire workflows, the most valuable skill will be translating business needs into AI solutions and understanding enterprise systems. Using historical analogies and the CLEAR framework, it argues that enterprise thinking, not tool memorization, will define future success.
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From Industrial-Age Utility to AI-Centric Utility
White paper for utility leaders on consolidating platforms, building an edge‑to‑cloud data fabric with preserved context, and redesigning the workforce for AI—measured by edge→decision latency, TTE, reliability, compliance velocity, and customer outcomes.
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The Mentor in the Machine
How ChatGPT 5 shifts from generic chatbot to trusted expert partner for Fortune 500 teams and utility field crews—expanding context, reasoning, vision, and reliability.
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Building a Lego Cat
Examining the transformative impact of AI on enterprise workforce roles and highlighting strategies to navigate this transition effectively.
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Rooted in Resilience
Exploring how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing enterprise SaaS and what utilities and large organizations must do to thrive in this new landscape of just-in-time software solutions.
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Learning by Doing
Exploring how the principles of Scout camp—personalized guidance, real-world practice, and adaptive learning—can transform how we approach AI training and integration in the workplace.
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Riding the AI Wave
Exploring Mary Meeker's latest AI trends report through the lens of a father-son camping trip, examining how unprecedented AI adoption rates are transforming workplaces and what it means for employees across all industries.
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Details on the WINs Network
A comprehensive guide to the WINS (Words, Images, Numbers, Sounds) framework for evaluating AI opportunities in organizational workflows, including practical categorization methods and strategic implementation guidance.
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Beyond the Boundaries: Leading in a Post-AI Era
A contemplative exploration of how AI's dissolution of traditional work boundaries between words, images, numbers, and sounds creates new opportunities for distinctly human leadership grounded in empathy, wisdom, and connection.
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The Student Who Taught Herself
Watching my daughter learn math reminded me of a breakthrough in AI—AZR, a self-teaching model that reasons and grows without external data. This post reflects on learning, AI, and grace.
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Unlocking Corporate Learning with AI Simulations
Explore how recursion principles guide the design of AI-driven corporate simulations, creating meaningful practice opportunities for essential business skills through thoughtful, iterative dialogue between learners and AI mentors.
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Lighting the Trail
A personal case study of using AI to develop and execute a complete Cub Scout Arrow of Light curriculum, demonstrating how artificial intelligence can support human leadership in training and ceremony design while maintaining cultural sensitivity and educational effectiveness.
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The Salmon Made Me Do It
A personal story about using AI to cook a family salmon dinner that reveals deeper insights about how enterprises can build employee trust in AI through small, safe experimentation rather than diving into high-stakes applications.
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From Chaos to Clarity
A practical demonstration of how AI prompt engineering can extract clear business requirements from cluttered meeting transcripts, showing how three carefully crafted prompts can transform chaos into clarity, empathy, and actionable insights.
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The Human Edge
Exploring the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on industries, employment, healthcare, and the human experience.
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The Quiet Revolution
An exploration of how GPT-4.5's advanced capabilities are quietly transforming modern workplace dynamics, reshaping roles while elevating uniquely human contributions of creativity, empathy, and strategic thinking.
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AI in Software Development - Breaking Myths and Building Teams
AI in software development isn’t about replacing developers or making them code faster. It’s about transforming teams, fostering collaboration, and expanding who can contribute to software creation.
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The 1% Catalyst
An analysis of Sam Altman's insights on AI progress and their application to the energy sector, exploring how exponential innovation, cost transformation, and small changes can drive massive impact in utility operations and leadership.
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Project Stargate Unveiled: OpenAI’s $500 Billion Bet on an AI-Driven Future
Explore the scale, ambition, and global impact of OpenAI’s Project Stargate, the $500 billion data center set to power the next generation of artificial intelligence.
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Barrels, Ammunition, & the Future of AI in the Electric Utility Industry
Explore how utilities can leverage AI by investing in cross-functional talent, modern infrastructure, and collaborative strategies.
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Custom Communication Styles in AI
Learn how to identify your unique communication style and use prompt engineering to make AI tools adapt to your preferences.
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Custom Writing Styles in AI
Learn how to capture your unique writing style and use AI to generate content that sounds like you.
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What AI in 2024 Means for Us in 2025
An analysis of how 2024's AI breakthroughs translate into practical opportunities and challenges for electric utilities and IT organizations in 2025, focusing on operational efficiency, customer experience, and strategic implementation.
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From Politics to Artistry - The Evolution of the Art of the Possible
A thought-provoking analysis on the hidden dangers of the 'art of the possible' and how it impedes genuine progress and innovation.
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The Machine That Dreamed in Plot
Reflections on computer-based storytelling models like BRUTUS, MINSTREL, and MEXICA, alongside thoughts on creativity, authorship, and the soul of narrative.