Occasional data analyses and experiments from Spark & Compass. Each one is a self-contained page, built for the fun of the question.
The newer the model, the stronger its own voice, and the harder it is to dislodge. Seven practices that fight the model’s defaults, described in enough detail that you can re-create any of them. Plus the one that needs no tooling at all.
A working sketch of a question-first AI handbook for researchers: navigate by what you need, and any section reads itself aloud. A strawman for the format.
Agent, chat, or automation? A simple way to tell three AI tools apart, on two questions: does the task need judgment, and does it need hands?
Three AI capabilities running in my one-person practice: my full working memory served to my phone, fully local models for data that can’t leave the room, and Claude driving a real browser.
Six months of Friday Brooks & Capehart segments on PBS NewsHour, one cartoon speech bubble per week: the moment Jonathan Capehart breaks out of pundit mode, in his own words.
All 194 national days on one calendar: 193 UN members plus Taiwan and Kosovo, from a question my daughter asked on the Fourth of July.