The U.S. hardship map and time series

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.

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.

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.

The Hawaii hardship map and time series

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.

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.

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.

Your Kid’s Education Is Already Outdated.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

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

Not AI is the Future

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