Thinking out loud about AI and what's next.

The Death of the Inbox

February 17, 2026

How email stops being a place you visit — and starts being a place AI lives

There's a ritual most of us perform dozens of times a day without thinking about it. We open our email. We scan. We feel a low-grade anxiety. We close it. We open it again twenty minutes later. The inbox became a to-do list we didn't design, managed by other people's priorities. That's about to change.

The Last App You'll Ever Download

February 10, 2026

On the coming collapse of the app model — and what replaces it

Remember the first time you downloaded an app? It felt like magic. Now look at your phone. How many of those icons do you actually use? The way we interact with digital services is about to change fundamentally — and the shift is already underway.

Archive · Originally published in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Having Siri on Wheels Will Be a Milestone in Human Travel

February 13, 2018

The convergence of autonomous vehicles and AI will fundamentally change how we move through the world

Change is painful, exciting, visceral, and necessary. And our commute is about to radically change. I see the convergence of autonomous vehicles and digital assistants. My autonomous vehicle will know me better than my cat — the physical manifestation of my digital assistant.

Archive · Originally published in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Students Need New Skill Sets to Exploit Artificial Intelligence

October 16, 2017

The future we can't predict is the one we have to prepare for

Each and every day brings exciting advances in AI as new, innovative ways to leverage it are discovered. These advances will fundamentally and permanently change humanity. For those of us in education, AI is nothing short of a positive, disruptive revolution.