The Edges of the Map
Essays on intelligence, geography, technology, and the strange places where they overlap.
Inference at the Source — Optical
A decade of optical harmonization and the move to inference in orbit, 2015–2026.
It's Getting Hot in Here
An essay on hubris, energy storage, and the indifference of divine beings
Sustainable War, Tested on Humans — Ukraine
Ukraine as the proving ground for autonomous lethal force, 2024–2026.
Sustainable War, Tested on Humans — Haiti
Haiti as a live proving ground for privatized, perpetual conflict, 2025–2026.
The Robot War That Never Happened
A speculative history of the human–AI trust collapse, 2026–2031.
What the Hammer Truss Knows
How building houses taught me AI architecture.
Inference at the Source
Onboard AI and the restructuring of the Earth observation value chain, 2019–2026.
Consultant in the Next Room
Two years of real workflow. The consultant pattern, the air gap, and the discipline that still holds.
AI Needs a Theory of Mind, Not Just More Compute
Kant, hidden categories, and what scaling alone cannot fix.
The Model Triages. The Analyst Still Decides.
Deep learning doesn't make analysts more efficient. It moves their work somewhere else.
Diogenes, Plato, and Chicken Hurling
On bringing the bird into the Academy.
Sycophantic AI and The Smiths
The cheese rocket, the Folium map, and the case for less agreeable machines.
AI Isn't Just Computer Science…
It's Legal Reasoning, Philosophy, Linguistics, and Library Science at Scale
Building a Production SAR Pipeline with ESA SNAP
What the Documentation Won't Tell You
The Honest Case for Large Language Models in GIS Workflows (And Where They Will Absolutely Burn You)
Where they earn their place. And where they burn you.
Why BlueLens Analytics Runs Entirely on Open-Source Tools, and Why That's Not Going to Change
Platform lock-in is a liability. Independent data, independent tools, independent analysis.
Seeing Through the Storm
Using SAR Imagery to See What Rescue Teams Couldn't