The Great Reclamation: A Manifesto for the American Mall
I want to buy a dying shopping mall and transform it into something America desperately needs: a place where stuff gets a second life instead of a one-way trip to the landfill.
The Infrastructure Gap in Sustainable Vocational Education
Vocational programs successfully teach upcycling, but graduates have no infrastructure to source materials.
The Agent Economy Is Here. Is Your Agent Ready to Be Hired?
Something shifted last week. Meta acquired Moltbook. Google shipped Agent Payments. And somewhere in Sacramento, I started rebuilding my AI to be hireable by other AIs.
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