Author Archives: shane

The Arsenal of Democracy Has a Glass Jaw

How America’s Critical Infrastructure Became Our Greatest Vulnerability A White Paper on Asymmetric Warfare and the Illusion of Security, by a board game enthusiast with an unhealthy obsession with civil infrastructure Executive Summary (How I Learned to Fear the Cyber Bomb) I’m going to do this the same way I’d brief generals, or The Office […]

Aquaman: Why We Need AI to Save Our Water Before the Bad Guys Ruin Everything

BLUF: We’re looking for about $1.8M in SBIR funding to build a complete version of Aquaman. Read and download the full white paper here. What if Aquaman was real, but instead of talking to fish, he was just a really smart computer program that could detect when someone was trying to poison your drinking water? […]

Ben Simmons and the Great Machine Learning Breakdown

There’s a moment in every career, whether it’s athletic, professional, or otherwise, when the thing you’ve built your entire identity around suddenly becomes the thing that exposes you as fundamentally insufficient. As at Atlanta Hawks fan, I watched this moment happen in real-time. On June 20, 2021, the Atlanta Hawks broke Ben Simmons. Of course, […]

How We Got Mage Into a Hardened Container (and Accidentally Future-Proofed the Federal Government)

Thereโ€™s always that one friend whoโ€™s cool first. You know the type. They started wearing Vans before Stunnaman and Lil B did the Vans song with the Wolfpack. (Back before Shane Morris was even rooomates with the boys from The Wolfpack. Yeah, that long ago.) They owned vinyl when you thought Spotify was enough. They […]