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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...
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...
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