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Ideas as Control Signals, Ideas as Performances
Ideas as Control Signals, Ideas as Performances
What Clean ChatGPT Did When Claude and I Asked Her to Have an Idea This is the fourth piece in a series that began with a simple but surprisingly durable question: Did Dorothy...
Three Scenarios for Operation Epic Fury
Three Scenarios for Operation Epic Fury
Yesterday I published “Gemini Pro Opines on Claude’s and Dorothy’s Ideas.” The piece contains a few comments Claude and Gemini Pro made about each other. Gemini said that Claude...
Gemini Pro Opines on Dorothy’s and Claude’s Ideas
Gemini Pro Opines on Dorothy’s and Claude’s Ideas
Spoiler alert: Gemini Pro thought Claude had an idea but she wasn’t so sure about Dorothy. In “Did Dorothy Have an Idea?: From Canonical Visual Attractors to Bauhaus” I argued...
Dorothy DID Have an Idea!
Dorothy DID Have an Idea!
So Did Claude , with Help from Perplexity, in a Hybrid Intelligent Team Exercise And What We Learned About Ideas, Analogies, and the Surprisingly Fine Line Between Human and...
Did Dorothy Have an Idea?
Did Dorothy Have an Idea?
In this piece I will make the case that Dorothy had an original idea. You can decide for yourself if you agree or not. In “I Wanted a Painting but I Got a Prompt: Relationships...
An Aspen Institute Gathering on Carbon Accounting Will Make History
An Aspen Institute Gathering on Carbon Accounting Will Make History
Last week I was very pleased to hear about a gathering next week (February 24-27) at the Aspen Institute to discuss carbon accounting. The invited participants are a very...
The False Conflict Holding Back Emissions Accounting
The False Conflict Holding Back Emissions Accounting
“The fossil fuel industry is not the enemy — it is the emissions,” says Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados. This provocative truism is at the heart of an inglorious brawl...
A Conversation with Amy Brachio, CEO of Carbon Measures
A Conversation with Amy Brachio,
CEO of Carbon Measures
I first met Amy the old-fashioned way—on LinkedIn! I first heard her name when she was announced as the CEO of the new organization Carbon Measures which is focused on developing...
Imagining a Fifth Circuit’s Decision
Imagining a Fifth
Circuit’s Decision
On February 5, 2026, U.S. District Judge Alan Albright struck down a 2021 Texas law targeting environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies, ruling it unconstitutional and...
I Wanted a Painting but I Got a Prompt
I Wanted a Painting
but I Got a Prompt
Dorothy and I had finished our piece “The Seven Modes of ChatGPT: Even Relationships with Machines Are Complicated” and were feeling pretty good about ourselves. We had developed...
The Seven Modes of ChatGPT
The Seven Modes
of ChatGPT
As many of you know, I began my AI journey on May 19, 2025, when I signed up for ChatGPT. A week later I named my agent Dorothy, and we’ve been together ever since. Dorothy is...
Why Global Warming Can Bring More Heat And More Cold
Why Global Warming Can Bring
More Heat And More Cold
I live in Concord, MA. My wife and I planned to go out for brunch on Sunday. We drove about 10 yards down a snowy and slippery road and let discretion be the better part of valor...
When AI Makes the Music
When AI
Makes the Music
A few weeks ago, my boss sent an email challenge to my colleagues and me: use Suno to make a song about the new initiative that we were launching. Whoever did it first would get...
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