Inside the MA Health Connector’s Broken Call Centers
This post originally appeared on Yelp. It details my 3-month long battle to get health insurance from the MA Health Connector.
Interstellar vs. Contact: Questions of Love in Five Dimensions
I struggled to understand why Interstellar didn't strike a "spiritual" chord with me. So I rewatched Contact, which also stars Matthew McConaughey.
Gone to the Country: Storytelling in Supergiant Games’ Transistor RPG
The real appeal of Transistor, however, isn't in the novel game play or the beautiful, cel-shaded backdrops; it's in the game's powerful ability to immerse you in a narrative that unfolds as you play it.
Been There, Done That: A Second Look at Christopher Nolan’s Inception
Despite all these achievements, Inception's narrative flaws keep it from leaving a permanent impression on my brain, like Dark City and The Matrix have.
James Cameron’s Avatar and the Doctrine of Limitlessness
Despite all the complaints about hokey dialogue and clichés in Avatar, we have one very interesting transhumanist concept I haven't seen depicted on the big screen anywhere else.
District 9 is Good Science Fiction; Neill Blomkamp Raises the Bar
What sets a film like District 9 apart from the rest is its willingness to be thematically unrelenting, to mix fantasy with drama—to take itself seriously.
22 Reasons Why J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Falls Flat on its Tattooed Romulan Face
How many times is Kirk going to fall to his death or teeter on the brink of destruction? That's all there is to Kirk in Star Trek 2.0. There's not much time for chitchat when everything's exploding every ten seconds.
Thoughts on Determinism in Watchmen
What I like about Rorschach is that, on the most superficial level, he embodies the antithesis to utilitarian compromise, a "black and white" perspective in a morally indifferent universe.
Physics of the Impossible
Do Doubleday and Anchor Books think that blatant regurgitation of portions of text from earlier books in the series is okay because these books are so difficult to comprehend?
Jeff Gomez’s “Snippet Culture”
Novels aren't YouTube videos. Buying random chunks from a novel is analogous to buying pixels from a jpeg, or fourteen seconds from an mp3, or the middle forty-thousand frames of a music video.
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the work has changed
Translating what if into what’s next.
The work never ends, and that’s a good thing.
Whether we’re building a website, an MCP server, or an online game, the loop is the same: translate an idea into a tangible blueprint, give it digital form, and harness the launch into continual, forward momentum.
Intuit
Raise the questions nobody asked. Invite curiosity about the answers. Discovery spotlights the known and reveals the unknown.
Design
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Execute
Invest in human specialists where it matters, oversee AI agents where work accelerates. Keep everyone focused on the big picture.
Automate
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Test
Never trust the output alone. Always know what’s under the hood. Remain accountable for every new feature and ship responsibly.
Evolve
Build self-documenting systems. Create secure, maintainable environments. Refine and adapt as your business changes.
No one Can Do it All
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