2027 is not an invasion date—it is a capability date. — YNOT! For the last few years, 2027 has been floating around Washington like the date on a wedding invitation. China. Taiwan. 2027. War. Circle the date. Buy ammunition. Order extra microchips. Perhaps cancel your vacation to … Continue readingChina, China, China… Is There Going to Be a War in 2027? Well…
The question is no longer whether our computers can be hacked. The question is what happens when AI learns how to hack everything else. — YNOT! Hacking used to mean breaking into a computer. That definition is already obsolete. When most people hear the word … Continue readingHACKING in the World of AI
The real danger of AI isn’t that it can lie. People have been doing that for thousands of years. The danger is that now every liar can afford a research department, a design studio, a voice actor, a lawyer, and 10,000 fake friends. –YNOT! The … Continue readingCrime in the Age of AI
You cannot prepare children for the future by hiding the future from them. Teach them to use AI, question it, challenge it—and most importantly, to think for themselves. — YNOT! There is an old habit among adults: when something new frightens us, we decide the … Continue readingKids Need AI — and Pretending Otherwise Won’t Save Them
Remember back in ancient times when kids had to prepare for the SATs? You bought the giant prep book. You went to classes. You memorized vocabulary words, formulas, rules, tricks and practice questions. A lot of education was basically: memorize this, remember it long … Continue readingAI Is Changing How We Learn — and That is a Good Thing
Fixing Venezuela is like performing a heart transplant on someone while they’re riding a bicycle. Yes, it can be done. But nobody should pretend it’s simple. — YNOT! There is a tendency to look at what is happening in Venezuela and reduce it to … Continue readingWhy Trump Is Working With Delcy Rodríguez — And Why Venezuela Is Much More Complicated Than It Looks
If artificial intelligence is becoming essential to how you work, you should probably own some of it. — YNOT! Right now, artificial intelligence is an incredible bargain. For $20, $100, $200 a month—or whatever level of subscription you are paying—you can get access to computing … Continue readingSooner or Later, the AI Companies Are Coming for Your Money
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. — Some Ancient Greek Today I planted some trees that I will probably never see grow to full size. Gave one to a dear friend. I have … Continue readingPlant Trees you will Never See — Olive Trees
The Perils of Being a Polymath – yes there is a name for this affliction. — YNOT! There is a particular kind of person who can repair a computer in the morning, read about Roman engineering over lunch, become fascinated with monetary policy by … Continue readingAre You a Genius, or Are You Just Confused?
The woman known as the “Mother of Hubble” helped create NASA’s space-astronomy program and turned an impossible telescope into reality. Now humanity’s most advanced observatories bears her name. Some truths should no longer require an argument. The Earth is not flat. Americans walked on the … Continue readingNancy Grace Roman: The World Is Not Flat, We Went to the Moon, and Women Are Just as Smart and Capable as Men—She Proved It All
You don’t need Socialism or Communism. You have freedom and opportunity – All you need is hard work, get the education, and a stubborn refusal to quit. — YNOT! There is a popular American habit of looking at a billionaire and assuming he must … Continue readingA tale of an immigrant, a teenaged mother, and one of the Riches men on Earth
An imagined conversation between two Americans who never had the opportunity to meet — Mark Twain, who lived long enough to witness humanity’s first powered flights, and Amelia Earhart, who helped turn aviation from an experiment into a new frontier. Somewhere Above the Clouds Mark … Continue readingWhen the Impossible Became Ordinary: Amelia Earhart, Mark Twain, and the Future of Flight
A neuron may die, but a memory is rarely buried with it. The brain keeps no filing cabinet—only a magnificent web of connections, constantly losing threads, tying new ones, and somehow remembering the story and may be one day we can record it. — YNOT! … Continue readingWhen a Neuron Dies Does It Go to Heaven?
My cat is alone all day. She must be bored. Maybe she needs a friend. Tell that to your wife, she might give you a smile — YNOT! Getting a second cat sounds simple. You may think: Sometimes that is exactly the right decision. … Continue readingAre Cats Cheaper by the Dozen?
The central problem was never a shortage of educated planners. The problem is always concentrated power combined with human nature. –YNOT! I have been around long enough to notice that America develops a strange case of political amnesia every few decades. An old idea sticks … Continue readingThat Ugly Thing That Sticks Out Its Head in America Every Few Decades…
Captain, I can’t give her any more power. I canna change the laws of physics!” — Scotty, Star Trek One of the easiest mistakes in business is assuming that a bigger problem requires a bigger solution. More employees – More advertising – More … Continue readingStop Solving Every Business Problem With More Horsepower
The real promise of AI isn’t that it can think for your business. It’s that it can handle the thousands of small actions between a decision and a result—while you concentrate on deciding where the company should go. — YNOT! Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving … Continue readingHow to Use AI Agents to Run More of Your Business
Three doors, one car and a decision that fooled thousands of intelligent people—including mathematicians but it works every time, well almost– YNOT! This is more important to your success in life than you may think initially, it effects all your life choices. So read on… … Continue readingThe Monty Hall Paradox: Why Switching Doors Doubles Your Odds
Nature never built one brain for every job. The human reasons, the dog recognizes, the cat reacts, and the iguana survives. The future of AI may work the same way: not one giant intelligence, but the right intelligence for the right problem. — YNOT! … Continue readingThe Right Brain for the Job: What Nature Can Teach Us About Artificial Intelligence
China’s economic miracle did not begin when communism finally worked. It began when China stopped insisting on it. — YNOT! For decades, China tried to build prosperity through orthodox communist economics: collectivized agriculture, state ownership, central planning, government-set prices, production quotas, and ideological control … Continue readingHow China Evolved Away from Communism After It Failed
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and the numbers are close enough—then for all practical purposes, it’s still a duck. That’s quantization. — YNOT! Humans are full of prejudices, shortcuts, and assumptions. For better or worse, these mental shortcuts allow … Continue readingQuantized AI Models: How Bigger Models Fit on Smaller Computers
The Children have to dance — YNOT! Fidel Castro would have turned one hundred years old this week, and I see people here and there celebrating the occasion. Celebrate him if you wish. I prefer to remember what he cost everyone, especially the Children of … Continue readingFidel Castro at 100: Ask Whether the Children Still Play
AI’s greatest power is connecting the dots. Its greatest danger is connecting dots that were never connected at all. Intelligence is not just seeing patterns—it is knowing when the dragon isn’t really there. — YNOT! There is a simple cartoon that explains one of the … Continue readingFrom Data to Wisdom: How AI Connects the Dots—and Sometimes Invents the Dragon
We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don’t throw out the best part of ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche and the Dangerous Parts of Us That Make Us Great Whether you read that literally, psychologically, or philosophically, there … Continue readingDon’t Kill Your Demons — Train Them
We have spent the last few years talking about AI assistants. That description is already becoming obsolete. The next generation of AI will not simply sit inside a chat window waiting for you to ask a question. It will have a job. It will have responsibilities. It … Continue readingGROK BOT: THE AI EMPLOYEE has JUST ARRIVED
We Outsourced Our Dinner—and Mistook Convenience for Security and now you complain it cost too much.– YNOT! There was a time when a man’s pantry told you something about him. If there were potatoes in the cellar, beans in a sack, tomatoes in jars, flour … Continue readingTHE GROCERY STORE IS NOT A FARM
Maria showed up at Uncle Bob’s house late Saturday afternoon carrying a laptop under one arm and its power supply tangled around the other. She was in her early twenties, in college, smart, opinionated, and—as Uncle Bob liked to remind her—dangerously confident around technology she … Continue readingThe Laptop and the Loaf of Bread
If you have two children and one learns faster than the other, you don’t make the smarter child learn less. You push both children to become the best they can be. Equality isn’t making everyone the same—it is giving everyone the opportunity to become better. … Continue readingWHY SOCIALISM IS A RACE TO THE BOTTOM
America Does Not Have a Money Problem. Maybe We Have a Priority Problem. –YNOT! Let me start with the part that will probably surprise some people who know my politics: Yes, I think we should do more for the homeless. I think poor people should … Continue readingHOW TO PAY FOR THE HOMELESS AND HEALTHCARE FOR THE NEEDY — WITHOUT TURNING SOCIALIST
What Good Architects Prioritize When Designing a Home for Themselves One of the most revealing questions you can ask an architect is not: “What kind of house would you design for a client?” It is: “What would you build for yourself?” The answers can be surprisingly … Continue reading10 THINGS THAT MATTER MORE THAN A BIGGER HOUSE
The best trap doesn’t force you inside. It makes you afraid of what will happen if you don’t follow. We call it FOMO –YNOT! FOMO – Fear of Missing Out is not new. It is ancient. Some traps are made of stone. Some are made of … Continue readingWinning by Deceit – FOMO – The trap was always in your Mind.
The Council had been in session for eleven minutes. In that time it had resolved 4,682,119 matters. No voices had been spoken. There was no need. Human language was painfully slow. Words required sequence. One concept followed another. Subjects required verbs. Ideas that could be transmitted in microseconds … Continue readingHuman Cadence
For more than sixty years, outsiders have tried to answer one deceptively simple question about Cuba: Who really runs the country? For decades, the answer seemed obvious. First there was Fidel Castro. Then there was Raúl Castro. Today, officially, there is President Miguel Díaz-Canel. But … Continue readingCuba After Raúl? “El Cangrejo,” the Castro Family, and the Quiet Battle Over Who Controls the Island Next
Nike Hercules, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Nuclear Missiles Hidden in Our Backyard Most people who think about South Florida and the Cuban Missile Crisis picture Soviet missiles in Cuba pointed toward the United States. But there is another side of that story that … Continue readingThe Forgotten Nuclear History of South Florida
There are moments in the history of a country that cannot be measured by elections, armies, speeches, or revolutions. They are measured by something much smaller. A suitcase. A passport. A photograph folded into a shirt pocket. A mother standing behind a glass partition at an airport, … Continue readingLos Hijos del Cielo Operation Pedro Pan and the Children Who Flew Alone
The U.S. vs. Marxism in 1970s Southeast Asia History is rarely as simple as the slogans used to fight it. — YNOT! In the 1960s and 1970s, American foreign policy in Southeast Asia was built around one overriding fear: Communism was spreading. China had fallen to … Continue readingOperation Menu and the Killing Fields
Never confuse primitive technology with primitive intelligence. They were as smart if not smarter than us. — YNOT! We like to think we live at the absolute pinnacle of human intelligence. We have computers, satellites, GPS, electric motors, cranes, lasers, power tools, artificial intelligence, and … Continue readingAncient Technologies Show We Are Not the First to Be Smart
The City Where Everybody Eventually Passed Through There was an old joke about Miami in the 1980s: one-third of the city was supported by drugs, another third by the CIA, Cuban intelligence or the clandestine war, and only the remaining third was involved in normal … Continue readingMiami, in the Center of It All – Drugs, Spies, Exiles, Covert Wars
How Castro Fought the CIA, the ounterrevolution, and the Secret War Against Cuba When Fidel Castro entered Havana in January 1959, the Cuban Revolution had won the war against Fulgencio Batista. It had not won peace. Within a remarkably short period, Cuba became the center … Continue readingDefending the Revolution
A Timeline From Castro’s Revolution to the CIA, the Exile Armies and the Underground War, 1959–1980 When Fidel Castro entered Havana in January 1959, almost nobody could have predicted that the Cuban Revolution would produce a secret war lasting decades. Within two years, Cuban exiles would … Continue readingTwenty Years of the Secret CIA War for Cuba 1959–1980
How did a movie made before human beings walked on the Moon manage to make modern science fiction look as though it was late for work? Before artificial intelligence started writing reports, answering telephones, composing music, diagnosing machinery, and occasionally telling us complete nonsense with … Continue readingLong before AI Took Over the World and Star Wars Ruled the Galaxy, There was 2001: A Space Odyssey – and there is still nothing like it today.
Compromise the terms if you must, but never compromise the value. If what you built is worth something, have the courage to stand behind it—and never sell out just to make the deal. — YNOT! One of the most dangerous pieces of advice in … Continue readingDon’t Sell Out: If It Has Value, Make Them Pay for It
Big Brother No Longer Needs to Watch You—You Carry Him in Your Pocket — YNOT! George Orwell speaks to us from the other side… Had I been told in 1948 that the citizens of the future would voluntarily purchase their own telescreens, carry them … Continue readingWhat Would George Orwell Think About Life in 2026?
By the time Dylan and Dorian returned Uncle Bob’s canoe, the sun was beginning to disappear behind the trees. The two young men carried the canoe upside down between them, with Dylan walking backward and Dorian struggling under the heavier end. “Slow down,” Dylan said. … Continue readingThe Canoe, and the Five-Percent Plan for Building Wealth
Lee Harvey Oswald spent his life trying to enter history. In the end, history swallowed him whole—leaving behind a dead president, a dead suspect, and questions that refused to die. — YNOT! History rarely chooses a neat, predictable character to stand at the center of … Continue readingThe Unlikely Man in the Middle of a Storm – Lee Harvey Oswald
When the man who told the world to trust him pleads the Fifth 111 times, silence becomes the loudest testimony in the room. –YNOT! For years, Americans were told that asking whether COVID-19 came from a laboratory was irresponsible, dangerous, or conspiratorial. PLEASE READ ME … Continue readingWhat We Know Today About the Origin of COVID—and How Far Back the Story Really Goes
Growing older is mandatory, but making life harder than it needs to be is just stubbornness wearing sensible shoes. — YNOT! Does aging really begin at 60, or does it merely step out from behind the curtain and announce that it has been managing the … Continue readingDoes Aging Really Begin at 60, or Does Your Body Just Stop Hiding the Evidence?
“Natural” does not mean safe. It means nature made it with a warning label—then hid the label, all without consulting a lawyer. –YNOT! We have been taught to fear processed food. Too much sugar. Too much salt. Too many ingredients with names that sound … Continue readingFRUITS AND NUTS THAT CAN KILL YOU
Bioengineered food is food produced from an organism whose genetic material has been deliberately changed through modern laboratory techniques to introduce, remove, or modify a particular biological trait. I want to begin by making something clear: I am not an enthusiastic supporter of bioengineering. … Continue readingBioengineered food vs Eat Food Your Grandfather Would Recognize
For decades, Cuba exported revolution while the Soviet Union picked up the tab. Cuban blood, Soviet money, and foreign countries paid the price. Cuba’s Military Campaigns, Proxy Wars, and Intelligence Operations Abroad After 1959, Cuba was not merely a poor island claiming to defend itself … Continue readingCUBA Exports the Revolution