Of all the incredible words in science, "plasma" might just be the most misunderstood. You hear it and maybe you think of donating blood to save a life, a vital and noble act. You...
MicroStrategy Dodges a Tax Bullet, and We're Supposed to Pretend This Is Normal Let me get this straight. A company’s stock jumps over 5% not because they invented something, not b...
I was staring at a network architecture diagram the other day—a beautiful, impossibly complex web of servers, nodes, and data pathways that powers a tiny fraction of our digital li...
An analysis often begins with an anomaly. In my case, the anomaly was a single word appearing in three distinct and uncorrelated data streams within a short time frame: "Adrena." T...
So, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power suddenly wants to be your best friend. They’ve announced a new program to slap solar panels and a big, shiny battery onto your hou...
I want you to think about the last time a system truly failed you. Maybe it was a power grid in a storm, a supply chain during a crisis, or just a piece of software that refused to...
The announcement, when it arrived, felt like an outlier in a dataset of corporate branding. Kraft Heinz, the conglomerate that owns a significant portion of the American pantry, de...
For years, we’ve thought of the `doordash app` as a simple utility. A digital button we press when hunger strikes. You tap, a `dasher` arrives, you eat. It was a transaction, a mod...
This week, if you’re in Central Texas and the skies are clear, you’ll have two chances to see it. On Tuesday night, for a brief three minutes, a brilliant point of light will arc a...
I want you to imagine the sound of a trading floor from thirty years ago. Can you hear it? That roar of a thousand voices, the frantic rustle of paper, the sheer, unadulterated hum...