Coyote Lake, Gilroy CA on pi-day 2026

Great CITRIS Directors stories of “interest of society” efforts

Former CA Governor proud of CA Nobel Prize performance

CITRUS success stories @joinclarity.bsky.social

CITRIS 25 year celebration event.

Half Moon Bay

Merry Christmas!

Oak above clouds

Call for Papers - AHFE Human-Side of Service Engineering "Styled for Innovation" - Prof. Clara Bassano (ISSIP.org Ambassador) www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Bend in the road

Homestead Avenue 2

Gunsmoke “The photographer”

Here is the photo with my mentor!

Homestead A enue

Thanks Sam Arbesman for sending me a copy!

New notions of infinity challenge a plan to define the mathematical universe: "Is Mathematics Mostly Chaos or Mostly Order?" @quantamagazine.bsky.social (Plus- John Allen Paulos @ja-paulos.bsky.social) Get down with Godel: roughlydaily.com/2025/07/04/a...

Wilder Ranch near Santa Cruz

Coastal fog - in retreat.

Cowell-Purisma Coastal Trail

From Nichols Kristoff on NYT www.aeinstein.org/198-methods-...

Carl Sagan: Goal For Human Species

Samuel Arbesman’s recent book looks great!

🌍 Learning for Sustainability I post on systems thinking, facilitation, co-design & evaluation — grounded in practice and shared learning. 📄 Worth revisiting: Systems thinking and systemic design: working with complexity 🔗 learningforsustainability.net/post/systems... 🧪 #LfSinsights

Coyote Lake in the distance

How fast is AI getting better at long tasks? Seems to be doubling every 7 months URL: metr.org/blog/2025-03... Bottomline AI is impressive, but imperfect - but it is getting better.

AI is not very good at: Truth - it makes many mistakes Properly citing sources Long complex tasks - it gets lost in the weeds

AI is very good at: 24x7 access Fast response Summarization Point-of-views All languages Generating multiple-choice questions for learning Generating explanations of wrong answers for teacher guides Generating python code

Orion over Apple spaceship

Neighbors napping

Blue sky

Delighted this arrived today!

Above the clouds

Oak tree

Every Jan 1 I post a scorecard on predictions I made, with dates, on Jan 1, 2018 on cars (self-driving), robots, AI, & ML, and on human spaceflight. Besides telling which turned out right and which wrong in the last year I also talk a lot of smack about these topics. rodneybrooks.com/predictions-...

New Year 2025

James Earl Carter Jr. A great role model for young men: —Served his country (Navy Submariner) —Graduate Work in Nuclear Physics —Married 77 years —Entrepreneur —39th President —Nobel Peace Prize —Author, 30 Books —Habitat for Humanity Volunteer —Sunday School Teacher RIP

Distant storm

South Bay sunset

Clouds got in the way

The boar.

Two oaks

Zinfandel Trail, Cupertino CA

Moonrise, Morgan Hill CA

Cowell Ranch, Half Moon Bay

Near Pebble Beach today

Lick Observatory

I had such a good time presenting at #EnterpriseAIWorld. My talk: "In the Age of GenAIs, What is Human Knowledge Good For?" The slides are at: imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/wp-content/u... #LLMs #artificialintelligence

Jade eyes