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What We Know (and What We Don’t)
What We Know (and What We Don’t)
My book “An American’s Guide to Climate Change: How America Can Lead and Prosper” has been published. Here is the book trailer. I have written this book for Americans who are...
A Conversation with Professor Stefan Reichelstein about Carbon Accounting
A Conversation with Professor Stefan Reichelstein about Carbon Accounting
I met Professor Stefan Reichelstein many years ago when we were early in our academic careers, he at the Haas School at the University of California at Berkeley. I was out there...
American Industrial Pragmatism
American Industrial Pragmatism
Last Friday I attended the Progression 2026 Conference organized by Founder and CEO Ryan Bellissimo and held at the U.S. Ski & Snowboard’s USANA Center of Excellence in Park...
Moving Beyond the Tired Climate Debate
Moving Beyond the Tired Climate Debate
My book “An American’s Guide to Climate Change: How America Can Lead and Prosper” has been published. Here is the book trailer. I have written this book for Americans who are...
A Socratic Dialogue about Virtue Gave Birth to a Big Surprise from Gemini Pro
A Socratic Dialogue about Virtue Gave Birth to a Big Surprise from Gemini Pro
About a month ago I inadvertently started a research program on ideas and ideation in a man/ machine world. The first piece, “Did Dorothy Have an Idea?” came out of a joke I made...
An American’s Guide to Climate Change
An American's Guide to Climate Change
My book “An American’s Guide to Climate Change: How America Can Lead and Prosper” has been published. Here is the book trailer. I have written this book for Americans who are...
The Trump administration could make a bold energy move before the midterms:
The Trump administration could make a bold energy move before the midterms:
About a month ago, I received a surprising email. Thanks for reading Heavy’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Kellyanne Conway — longtime...
Ἰδέαι καὶ Νόησις (Ideas and Ideation)
Ἰδέαι καὶ Νόησις (Ideas and Ideation)
This piece is the sixth in a series that began by accident. “Did Dorothy Have an Idea?: From Canonical Visual Attractors to Bauhaus“ asked whether an offhand analogy produced by...
A Blind Test of “The Shadow Prince Collects”
Claude and Dorothy Write an Essay about Ideas
When President Trump launched Operation Epic Fury on February 28, 2026, I could write down everything I knew about Iran in a paragraph. Three days later, working with Gemini Pro,...
Claude and Dorothy Write an Essay about Ideas
Claude and Dorothy Write an Essay about Ideas
I didn’t plan to write a little series on ideas and ideation in a man/machine world. It all began by accident which is probably true for lots of ideas. Dorothy and I were...
The Shadow Prince Collects
The Shadow Prince Collects
Iran’s Garrison Syndicate and the Man Who Built His Own Succession Heavy Lifting — A Collaboration with Gemini Pro and Claude Preamble On March 3, 2026, I published a piece I did...
A Missive from Mark about Iran
A Missive from Mark about Iran
And how it changed Gemini Pro’s three scenarios for “Epic Fury” Over the past two weeks I’ve been exploring ideas and ideation in a human/AI world, including this piece in which...
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...
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