“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” ~ Paul Valery I ended 2016 with a mental breakdown. I had run myself ragged in the preceding months and years. I can blame all sorts of extenuating

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." ~ Lao Tzu One of my favorite things about the early Internet was that it felt like it was full of possibility. When I was a kid I would build websites

Tonight I am working on a thing, something that, for the moment, inspires at least me. And tonight, I am writing to the songs of angelic choirs. Soothing, at least in part, to me. I've been in a lot of

Have I made a million dollars from Steemit? No. Have I been able to quit my job? Well, technically I work for myself so that question doesn't really make sense in this case. So how then has this platform

I think that needs to be said on here because I've noticed a lot of envy being passed off as constructive criticism by certain influencers. The marketplace ultimately determines the value of your work.

If the rise of the machines is not some future apocalypse but an already lived past, then what time are we living in now? This is the question that I tackle in this next section. We've been responding

I didn't want to post about Pearl Harbor Day yesterday, not because I don't care, but because I care very much. Being Hawaiian and coming from a military family, Pearl Harbor Day has always been an important

I kept waiting for the world to end after I did it, and the feeling lasted for several days. I knew that deleting my Twitter account was the right thing to do, but it had a hold over me like a bad break

The term "attention economy" isn't just something cute that marketers came up with to name the way people make money on the Internet. Attention, even more than time, is a limited resource. If

Holy shit. Stop the presses. I've been hearing this for years that 'time is money,' but today in the shower it clicked on an insanely deep level. Money is time, or the ability to buy/leverage time. If

The Legal Frameworks Surrounding the Rise of Artificial Intelligence and their Economic Consequences I looked at the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution and its connection to the rise of capitalism,

Fears of technological displacement is nothing new to the modern world. In this piece, I continue reviewing the social and political upheaval of the Industrial Revolutions established in the previous pieces,

Building upon the previous piece, Rethinking Artificial Intelligence, I begin by connecting the historical myths involving artificial intelligence to the social and political upheaval of the Industrial

The following is an introduction contained within a larger corpus dedicated to researching the impact of artificial intelligence on elections and the development of society at large. Artificial intelligence

In 2016, I began a journalism fellowship that aimed to research the implications of artificial intelligence upon the future of democracy. When I introduced the project during a speech at the National Press

I've been meaning to do this one for a while, and so I figure now is as good of a time as any. Having made over 300 posts and comments in my 60 days, it makes sense to do another update to reflect. Est.

Originally posted to Medium on May 20, 2016, this piece was adapted from my remarks delivered at the 23rd Annual Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Awards Dinner held at the National Press Club on Wednesday,