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The U.S. hardship mapJuly 2026I Reverse-Engineered the ALICE Methodology with Fable 5July 2026Technical Notes on the Reconstructed ALICE SeriesJuly 2026The Hawaii hardship mapJuly 2026The Claude-usage landscapeJuly 2026The Geography of HopeJuly 2026Your Kid’s Education Is Already Outdated. Now What?March 2026Not AI is the FutureApril 2025The Empathy EconomyJune 2024

The U.S. hardship map

An interactive map of how many households in every U.S. state and county live below a bare-minimum survival budget, every year from 2010 to 2024.

July 2026 · dashboard

I Reverse-Engineered the ALICE Methodology with Fable 5

Four counties do not cost the same, and costs do not hold still for six years.

July 2026 · essay · 15 min read

Technical Notes on the Reconstructed ALICE Series

How to reproduce the reconstruction. What was documented, what I recovered from the data, what I had to fit, and what I could not do at all.

July 2026 · methodology · 30 min read

The Hawaii hardship map

An interactive map of how many households in each Hawaii county and community live below a bare-minimum survival budget, every year from 2010 to 2024.

July 2026 · dashboard

The Claude-usage landscape

An interactive map of how 121 countries and 52 US states use Claude, clustered from Anthropic's Economic Index open data.

July 2026 · dashboard

The Geography of Hope: The people with the least are the most hopeful about AI

I ran my own analysis of Anthropic's data, looking for why. The strongest clue was in how a country treats its women.

July 2026 · essay · 14 min read

Your Kid’s Education Is Already Outdated. Now What?

A hiring manager’s case for teaching empathy over technical skills

March 2026 · essay · 12 min read

Not AI is the Future

April 2025 · essay · 4 min read

The Empathy Economy: Embracing Our Imperfections in the Age of AI

June 2024 · essay · 9 min read
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