October 15, 2025

Why Clear Leadership Beats Cutting-Edge Tools Every Single Time

Strong leadership, not technology, is the real driver of team performance and organizational success.

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Apple AirPods : a gateway hearing aid

August 19, 2025
When the US Food and Drug Administration approved over-the-counter hearing-aid software for Apple’s AirPods Pro in September 2024, with a device price point right around $200, I was excited. I have mild to medium hearing loss and tinnitus, and my everyday programmed hearing aids cost just over $2,000—a lower-cost option I chose after my audiologist…

How churches use data and AI as engines of surveillance

August 19, 2025
On a Sunday morning in a Midwestern megachurch, worshippers step through sliding glass doors into a bustling lobby—unaware they’ve just passed through a gauntlet of biometric surveillance. High-speed cameras snap multiple face “probes” per second, isolating eyes, noses, and mouths before passing the results to a local neural network that distills these images into digital…

Should AI flatter us, fix us, or just inform us?

August 19, 2025
How do you want your AI to treat you?  It’s a serious question, and it’s one that Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, has clearly been chewing on since GPT-5’s bumpy launch at the start of the month.  He faces a trilemma. Should ChatGPT flatter us, at the risk of fueling delusions that can spiral out of…

How to make clean energy progress under Trump in the states—blue and red alike

August 19, 2025
The second Trump administration is proving to be more disastrous for the climate and the clean energy economy than many had feared.  Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act repealed most of the clean energy incentives in former president Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. Meanwhile, his EPA administrator moved to revoke the endangerment finding, the…