HeyJaredThe Strategic Owl
Independent analysis, visual satire, and civic tools that cut through the Deflectogarchy to show how words and power shape America.
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What Are We Really Trying to Fix? (opens the original)
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Here’s what you’ll learn in this articleWhy perception, participation, and trust matter so much in a self-governing society.How agency and incentives shape elections, government, markets, and public behavior.Why I think we should repair and improve existing systems before replacing them.How I use AI as a research tool to question ideas, correct
Understanding Comes Before Responding (opens the original)
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Hello and welcome, fellow owls.For those who are new here, my name is Taylor. I’m an independent technologist, and I genuinely appreciate you spending some of your time reading what I write. I know there are a million other things competing for your attention, so I try to make sure that when you give me some of yours, I’ve actually put some thought and effort into what I’m giving you back.Politics can feel heavy. It can be emotional, frustrating, and exhausting. I know that firsthand. I’ve argue
What Matters in the White House Press Fight? (opens the original)
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Hello and welcome. First, thank you for giving me some of your time and attention today.When I tell you I understand how emotional politics can become, I mean that literally.After Trump was elected a second time, I had a seizure. I collapsed, landed on my face, and broke my upper cheekbone.Not long after that, I called my grandfather with a pretty reasonable question:Should I stop doing this?If following politics was contributing to that much stress, affecting my marriage, and becoming something
Here’s a Prompt I Use to Analyze the News (opens the original)
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Hello, and welcome.Everyone says we live in an attention economy, so I appreciate you giving me some of yours.I might say we’ve gone a step further. We live in a society chasing algorithms, constantly reacting to whatever gets pushed in front of us next.I just wrote about where I think AI fits into our future, and whenever somebody tells you they know exactly what that future looks like, you can probably discount the prediction a little. I don’t know what AI looks like ten years from now. My gue
You don’t need to love AI to understand how to use it. (opens the original)
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Imagine you’re sitting in a job interview a few years from now and they ask:“Tell me about a time you used AI to solve a real problem.”Think about that question.I have a feeling a lot of people are going to fumble around trying to remember something they asked a chatbot to generate.My answer would probably be: “How much time do you have?”I know there’s a lot of animosity toward AI right now. Jacob Coxon, the Harry Potter-looking former Anthropic researcher, recently resigned and warned that peop
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