So many of us believe that the people we admire, respect, and trust — public figures or “Official Authorities” on a subject — are accurate simply because of who they are, and that questioning them becomes a kind of forbidden zone. It happens at a subconscious level, and it happens to all of us, myself […] Read more

There are very few people alive who have sat inside the machinery of American intelligence, witnessed what it does in the dark, understand the inner workings of it as an agency and was called to tell the truth about the Torture Program to verify it on national television, and paid for that truth with their […] Read more

California has a spirit that is hard to explain until you’ve been away from it long enough to feel the difference. I returned to my home state in the middle of one of the most demanding transitions of my adult life. This commentary is what came to me. We lost Nick Pope on April 6th, […] Read more

For the past several years I have been closely watching the Dfinity Foundation — a Zurich based nonprofit and one of the largest blockchain and cryptography employers in the world — and its flagship creation, Internet Computer Protocol (ICP). I have watched closely enough to have formed a preliminary observation about what it is, what […] Read more