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Great Design Invites Delight, Awe

June 4, 2025 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

I replaced my iPhone this week. With my updated MacBook, they’re my two most essential devices.  I realized that I interact with them more than with anyone else most days (except maybe Wally).  I’m startled to write … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts Tagged With: Ai, artificial intelligence, creative visualizing, design, engineering, humane technology, industrial design, Io, Jony Ives, OpenAI, Sam Altman, screenless handheld AI powered device, tech optimism

Liberating Trump’s Good Instincts From the Rest

April 21, 2025 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

Last week, I promised to write about what thoughtful and concerned citizens can do to confront the chaos and damage our president’s actions have caused in only three short months. The first thing is to acknowledge that Trump is, in … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts Tagged With: antifragile, antifragile opposition, attack on universities, Bret Stephens, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Oren Cass, Ross Duothat, Trump foreign policy, Trump tariffs, Trump's good instincts, Trump's opponents, Walter Russell Mead, Yaroslav Trofimov

Delivering the American Dream More Reliably

March 30, 2025 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

We hear a lot about the dangers and “hallucinations” of AI as we test-drive our large language models. At the same time, we probably hear too little about how AI is helping us to advance our body of knowledge … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts Tagged With: Ai, American dream, artificial intelligence, economic connectedness, economic opportunity, Lost Einsteins, Millken Center for Advancing the American Dream, powerful mapping tools, Raj Chetty, social capital, upward mobility

A Place That Looks Death in the Face, and Keeps Living

March 1, 2025 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

This week I'm sharing a sobering but life-affirming message that I got this week from New Orleans.(Over the years, I’ve learned more from this City than from any other in America, so I’m always on the look-out for another one of its smoke … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts Tagged With: clear eyed perspective, climate change, death, disaster planning, ecology, environmental collapse, living with risk, Nathaniel Rich, New Orleans

Too Many Boys & Men Failing to Launch

February 19, 2025 By David Griesing 2 Comments

These days, it seems almost fool-hardy to flag another identity-based group—namely American boys & men—that needs our affirmative action.  Initiatives to help other disadvantaged groups are being purged in Washington these days, and if … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts Tagged With: 2024 US election, Arlie Hochschild, boys & men, failing to launch, HEAL jobs, masculinity, new role for fathers, Of Men and Boys, red-shirting, Richard Reeves, Richard V. Reeves, Strangers in Our Own Land, Tim Walz

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