I am writing this one a little differently. I am just returning from vacation in South Texas, staying with a close friend of mine, John. We share a lot in common—our faith, our families, a love of kiteboarding and sailing, and a deep love for this country. John also comes from a remarkable American military family. His father attended West Point, played quarterback for Army, and was coached by Vince Lombardi. He later served in Korea and Vietnam, commanded troops in combat, and ultimately...

The artificial intelligence infrastructure boom has become one of the largest capital deployment cycles we have seen in technology. Billions of dollars are flowing into GPUs, data centers, power generation, networking, cooling, and the supporting infrastructure required to train and operate increasingly sophisticated AI models. The demand is real, the technological progress is remarkable, and there are legitimate reasons to believe that artificial intelligence will reshape large portions of...

I have been complaining about Outlook for most of my adult life. This is not exactly a lonely position. Plenty of people have spent years arguing with it, waiting on it, reorganizing it, and wondering why email still feels like a piece of office equipment that resents being used. My colleague Rich Washburn has been telling me for a long time that I needed to move to Thunderbird. He has also been telling me about Codex, AI agents, and all the rest of it. Anyone who knows Rich knows that he is...