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Mar 13

From 99.9% Confidence to Humble Learning: Building a Basketball Prediction Engine in Public

How a catastrophic miss taught my AI model what every coach already knows: depth beats talent when fatigue sets in

Alt Text: A dramatic 16:9 sports analytics graphic split into two sides. The left side shows a clean, blue “UNC Confidence Prediction” at 99.9% with a steadily rising graph. The right side shows the display shattered like glass, revealing a final “Clemson 80–79” outcome in red with a plummeting data line. In the center, a glowing microprocessor chip labeled “v2.1” emerges from the cracks. A header at the top reads, “From 99.9% Confidence to Humble Learning.”

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Nov 2

My Students Matched the Pundits in Fifty Minutes. The Forecast Was the Least of It.

The prediction is the least interesting thing that happened in my classroom this morning, and it is the only part anyone will ask about.

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Aug 3

Will AI Take My Job in Catawba County?

The honest answer runs backward here, and the real question is one nobody is funding.

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Jul 8

The Last Day of the Old World

How the Iran War Wrote the Survival Guide Every Nuclear-Ambitious State Will Follow

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Jun 18

Anyone Can Code

Gusteau was right. So was the rat. And so are your operations people.

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Jun 10

The Life That Doesn’t Photograph

Someone, somewhere tonight, is drinking wine from a can. Alone. A screen in front of them, a world inside it. Nothing about this is…

A wooden dining table in warm candlelight, two empty plates with remnants of a meal, a partially full glass of red wine, an open bottle of Margaux, and a cork resting on the linen runner. Chairs pulled back slightly, as if guests just left. A single lamp glows in the background.

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May 27

The Pope, the Economist, and the Catawba Valley

In January, Ajay Agrawal and two coauthors published a working paper at the National Bureau of Economic Research arguing that the dominant…

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May 24

What Makes a City Well-Managed?

An Old Answer We Forgot

A swept stoop on a Pittsburgh rowhouse with a broom leaning against the iron railing and autumn leaves piled neatly at the curb. A church steeple is visible in the distance down the brick-lined street.

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May 20

The Conversation Was Compounding

What happened when I sat down to think clearly about my county’s industrial future — and the AI conversation pattern that produced an…

Aerial illustration of a North Carolina foothills industrial corridor at golden hour. A modern data center with rooftop solar panels and an adjacent solar array sits on the left, transmission lines run along a river through the middle of the scene, and a large red-brick textile mill with a tall smokestack stands on the right. Layered ridges of the Blue Ridge foothills recede into the distance under a warm amber sky.

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May 17

It’s Not Thucydides

Soybeans, Boeing orders, and the structural concession nobody’s pricing in.

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John Andrews

John Andrews

Mary Catherine's Dad, Mary Shannon's Husband, Alex Lee Professor of Business @LR, Katadhin Consulting Co-Founder, Duke Fan, Collective Bias Founder

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