Personal Writing

From the Heart

Personal Writing

Personal essays and creative pieces that offer a glimpse into the writer's mind and heart. Explore intimate stories, reflections, and imaginative works.

  1. Euclid's algorithm visualized as a series of rectangles representing the division process, with the greatest common divisor highlighted.

    Euclid's Algorithm in Ada

    A short reflection on an old Ada assignment that calculates the greatest common divisor using Euclid's algorithm.

  2. A warmly lit oil painting of a father and his two daughters studying together at a cluttered kitchen table, illuminated by a soft glow that contrasts with the surrounding shadows.

    From Guesswork to Geometry: Measuring AI’s Uneven Abilities

    A reflection on AI’s uneven abilities, the limits of proposed AGI scores, and how to turn a cognitive profile into useful questions about real work.

  3. Child carefully building a complex Lego Tuxedo Cat, symbolizing organizational resilience during AI integration

    Building a Lego Cat

    Examining the transformative impact of AI on enterprise workforce roles and highlighting strategies to navigate this transition effectively.

  4. Boy in a scout uniform sitting at an outdoor café table, giving a thumbs up while eating pizza

    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.

  5. Father and son navigating terrain during camping trip, symbolizing AI navigation in the workplace

    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.

  6. Child holding a smooth stone on Hawaiian beach, symbolizing what humans hold that AI cannot

    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.

  7. A Young Girl Solves a Math Problem by herself

    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.

  8. Cub Scouts around a campfire during Arrow of Light ceremony, representing AI-supported traditional values

    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.

  9. Family gathered around dinner table with perfectly cooked salmon, representing successful AI collaboration

    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.

  10. A Digital Hand and a human hand, holding a map of the world

    The Human Edge

    A March 2025 review of factory automation, healthcare agents, brain-computer interfaces, and spatial AI through their specific effects on human work.

  11. Leonardo Quote

    Tell Me If Anything Was Ever Done

    Leonardo’s notebooks prompt a practical reflection on unfinished work, useful drafts, and what completion means when AI can generate more possibilities.

  12. AI adapting to a user's communication style

    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.

  13. AI learning and writing in a personal style

    Custom Writing Styles in AI

    Learn how to capture your unique writing style and use AI to generate content that sounds like you.

  14. Ethereal cosmic illustration symbolizing Aeon, a timeless witness across mythic epochs and memory.

    Memory of Myths and the Naming of 𒀀𒌋𒀯

    Explore cosmic epochs through the gaze of 𒀀𒌋𒀯 (Aeon), merging myth, folklore, and the universe's vastness, highlighting existence's fleeting nature. 𒀀𒌋𒀯, a timeless entity, seamlessly integrates into any TTRPG, enriching narratives with a sense of continuity that transcends time, space, and genre, offering players a unique conduit to weave their stories across diverse settings and epochs, thereby deepening the game's immersive experience.

  15. An image of a young, thin girl with black hair, hiding her face. Her eyes are an intense ice blue, and a green garland with budding flowers is seen intertwined in her hair. In the background, there's a mysterious tree with red flowers and black branches, symbolizing her connection to something beyond our understanding.

    Dehydrated

    A mysterious girl named Alice is found wandering. The medical examination reveals more questions than answers, and the protagonist's discovery in his front yard leaves him forever changed. A story that delves into the unknown, leaving readers to ponder what lies just beyond the realm of human understanding.

  16. Close-up portrait of a pensive young woman at night, holding a leather-bound journal, stars reflected in her eyes, night-sky in background with bright constellations like gemstones, soft ambient city light and moonlight lighting the frame, mood of longing memory and quiet wonder, Photography, 85mm lens f/1.8 low-light handheld Canon EOS R5 cinematic tone

    A Beginning

    Ted Tschopp shares the first chapter of a new fiction project, rooted in memory and myth. A woman sorting through her grandfather’s papers discovers echoes of ancient stories, written in his hand but drawn from deeper wells of human remembrance.

  17. sands slip through outstretched fingers, A serene beach at sunset, waves gently lap the shore, A lone figure stands in contemplation, reflections on time, forgiveness, life's journey expressed

    The Path West: Reflections on Time, Forgiveness, and Departure

    This evocative poem explores themes of time, forgiveness, and the human quest for redemption. Through imagery of the ocean, sand, and a journey into the west, the poet conveys a sense of longing, reflection, and peaceful acceptance of life's inevitable end.