AI Intersections Public Policy & Mobility

05/01/2026

I don’t want to keep writing about Iran, war, and money.

But here we are.

I wrote about Iran in July 2025.
I wrote about it again in February 2026.
Now I have an April 2026 piece — and yes, there’s already a May draft forming around the question I can’t shake:

Who benefits when the world starts burning?

This new piece is raw. It’s about anger, prayer, history, sleeplessness, military families, civilians caught in the middle, and why I keep writing when the world feels like a record stuck on repeat.

I’m not a fortune teller. I’m just tired of hitting snooze.

And if one person pauses before cheering another war, asks a better question, or follows the money a little deeper, then maybe the writing was worth it.

I am not a fortune teller.

04/28/2026

04/25/2026

Story about the start of and a teen trying to .

My latest Substack is part teenage romance, part phone-bill trauma, part early-tech memoir — with prank calls, a secret bat phone, Ooma, Roku, and one very awkward fake radio contest.

What was your most unforgettable phone story?

How money, romance, phone-company borders, prank calls, and early tech turned one kid’s life into a 50-year communication experiment.

04/22/2026

Nostradamus Wanna-Be: I was sure newspapers would never go online and streaming video would never really happen. 😆

Turns out I was very wrong.

This one is personal, funny, and a little humbling — but it is also about something bigger: how fast technology, and now AI, are changing our jobs, businesses, bills, and daily lives, often before we have time to catch up.

A newspaper kid, a dial-up skeptic, and a few predictions that aged terribly

04/01/2026

My DMs have been a little livelier than usual. A few texts. A few side comments. A little more curiosity than normal after some of my recent pieces.

So let me ask: What do a quiver, Forest Frolic, Mr. Ed, Dasani bottles, and a racing mind have in common?

More than you might think.

Fair question.

03/29/2026

Did You Know Trump Used Pseudonyms Before “Fake News”?
What started as a Doug Flutie story turned into a very different kind of rabbit hole.

Some stories do not begin with a plan.

03/22/2026

🚨 Wake up. This is not a drill, and it is not just tech people talking to tech people.

AI is moving into jobs, schools, utilities, land use, and local deals faster than most people can track.

🤖 Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind and a 2024 Nobel Prize winner, compared this shift to the Industrial Revolution — except 100 times faster.

That is not a generation.
That is not even a decade.
That is the length of a lease you already signed.

That line stopped me cold, because this is not just about Silicon Valley.

⚠️ This is about your job.
🎓 Your kid’s degree.
💡 Your electric bill.
💧 Your water.
🏘️ Your community.

If you think you can learn about this later, that may be the biggest mistake of all.

I wrote this piece in plain English because this is not fake news, not a side distraction, and not something that only matters to people in tech.

If you want a slightly more Facebook-punchy ending, use this last line instead:

This is already landing in real life — whether people are paying attention yet or not.

Wake up. This is not a drill. AI is moving into jobs, schools, utilities, land use, and local deals faster than most people can track.

02/18/2026

Forward Motion: Big Change Starts Local. 🚍🌎

I’m posting this because I’ve worked with Crissy Ditmore on transportation and public policy for over 10 years — and I can say this plainly: she’s one of the most thoughtful, effective, and action-oriented leaders I know in the mobility space.

Whether you’re a mobility/transit/public-policy “wonk”…or you simply want to understand how housing, plumbing, sanitation, and transportation systems shape your daily life, your commute, your workforce, and your bottom line — Crissy’s work is worth following.

On LinkedIn, you can find her as Crissy Ditmore — “the Mobility Girl.” She’s the founder of Edgewise Network LLC, and Edgewise connects the right people to the right projects to move ideas into action:
➤ Mobility + transportation policy
➤ MaaS / MOD + tech ecosystems
➤ Strategy + funding pathways
➤ Fare modernization + implementation support

If you’re an employer, a community leader, or someone trying to make systems work better where you live:
➤ Follow Crissy Ditmore
➤ Follow Edgewise Network LLC
➤ Watch what they’re building — and share it with someone who needs to see it

👍 Like 🔁 Share ➕ Follow (on LinkedIn)

Visibility creates opportunity. Opportunity creates impact.

02/01/2026

Ever notice how some memories stick not because you met the famous person… but because of everything around it? 🙂

Back in the early ’90s, while was filming in Northern Illinois, I kept taking time off work with a friend—not to chase a movie, but to take back roads, follow curiosity, and see what was happening just beyond the usual routes.

WGN Radio (and sometimes WBBM Newsradio for traffic and weather).
Winter air that woke you up fast. A Rand McNally atlas doing the heavy lifting.

I never met Bill Murray.
And somehow, that made it better.

What lasted were the new friendships, the familiar faces you’d see again on different corners, the conversations that started with “you hear they’re filming over there?” and ended with laughter. New roads, new people, shared moments you couldn’t plan.

That’s the part I still carry with me.

Anyone else have a memory where the journey ended up being the whole point?

Why this movie was never just Pennsylvania to me. 📻