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The Analytical Blind Spot: Missing the Religious Framework Trump is a lifelong liar, manipulator and exploiter. This is well-documented by both his opposition and supporters—there’s no mystery here. Yet analysts, including Jay Kuo, keep writing narratives like: “Trump has repeatedly pitched himself as a peace candidate during his political career,” followed by surprise: “But if…
Originally posted to my LinkedIn newsletter Monday AI. A Shift in Medium, A Shift in Mind In the past, people wrote books. Now people post on social media. In the future, they’ll release agents. This fundamental transformation signals a paradigm shift in how human knowledge gets created, shared, and experienced. We’re moving from an era of static content consumption to one…
The retreat from federal power is exactly what corporate interests want—here’s how to fight back with systems that actually work Cross-posted to Substack What I Really Think About Community Wealth, Social Enterprise, and Wellbeing Economies I think community wealth building, social enterprise, and wellbeing economies represent some of the most important innovations happening in America…
Everything you think you know about the national debt is probably wrong. Here’s what’s really happening. Today is June 14, 2025, the day when No Kings protests are taking place across the U.S. I thought it would be nice to rework this old post from my blog chevan.info Calling out my own biases: Before I start, let me be…
How a 1990s text file reveals what we’re losing—and need to rebuild—in the age of AI agents In the mid-1990s, as the web rapidly expanded, website administrators faced a growing problem: bots. These were simple scripts written to crawl pages and index them for search engines. Harmless enough—until the traffic became overwhelming. Some bots would…
While still small in volume, the behavioral signal is loud: LLMs are becoming a discovery layer. Not just answering questions, but routing demand.
Bots are becoming browsers.
I build because I want to change what’s possible for people. I believe we can design systems that help people reenter growth, reconnect to purpose, and reclaim agency—whenever they’re ready.
What if your content loads in 50 milliseconds—but no one ever sees it? In the AI-mediated internet, delivery isn’t the problem. Discovery is. CDNs and the Attention Economy For most of the web’s commercial history, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have been indispensable. They allowed publishers and platforms to serve content rapidly, reduce latency, and keep…
Introduction If you’ve been following my work, you might have noticed that I’ve used the term Web 4.0 to describe the next phase of the internet—a shift that I initially framed as an evolution of the web itself. That term came out of the work I did last year, building on ideas from Web 3.0—ideas that are…
This past week, Mark Zuckerberg made headlines with a bold new vision for Meta’s ad platform: soon, small businesses won’t need to worry about creative, targeting, or even analytics. All they’ll need is a goal and a budget. Meta’s AI will handle the rest—automatically generating content, selecting the audience, optimizing the spend, and reporting the…