town halls are my favorite ritual in community building. the open floor tells you more about a community's health than any metric ever will. hosting one tonight for vVv Gaming, 6PM MST / 8PM EST, covering our Aion 2 guild and what's next. discord.gg/vmEebqXG4

nineteen years of building vVv Gaming and the best part is still this: a new game, a community ready to organize around it, and a room full of people who want to know the plan. Aion 2 town hall. July 16, 5PM PST / 8PM EST. i'm leading. discord.gg/XDS2HZcRf?ev...

a friend we'd known one year showed up twice a week during our recovery. swept the garages, balanced the spa, moved furniture we couldn't lift. people we'd known much longer gave thirty minutes timed to end before it cost anything. lordjerith.substack.com/p/when-nobod...

AI is following the exact path social media took: huge potential, zero ethical guardrails, everyone waving away the risks because the money's good. talked about that (and why weekly D&D might matter more than we think) on I Used To Think. open.spotify.com/episode/6cm5...

been thinking about why faction-based MMOs create tighter communities than anything else in gaming. choosing a side and defending it together builds something real. vVv Gaming will be running Asmodian in Aion 2. looking forward to it. aion2.plaync.com/en-us/conts/...

wrote about what a 9-hour board game taught me about AI and trust. the whole diplomatic layer runs on promises nothing enforces, which turns out to be the cleanest lens I've found for the question this AI series keeps circling. lordjerith.substack.com/p/the-table-...

wrapped the second Weave AI Bootcamp and the homework caught me off guard. creatives pick up AI tools faster than anyone: needlepoint, novel writing, film festival prep. iterative thinkers already have the muscle AI requires. weaving.us/events/ai-bo...

when the military builds AI into wargaming and operational planning, the "is AI ready for serious work" debate is over. it's been over. dev.to/rawveg/war-g...

one afternoon of practical AI integration has saved local businesses 8-10 hours of weekly admin work in my consulting practice. no technical background required. the gap between businesses that act now and businesses waiting for things to "settle down" gets wider every week.

sitting on a panel Tuesday with Enrico Pontelli from NMSU about AI and small business. the question i keep getting from local business owners is "when should i start?" and the answer has been "six months ago" for about a year now. June 2, Hotel Encanto, Las Cruces. registration closes tomorrow.

a year of daily AI collaboration taught me something I didn't expect: the tool is best at the work that matters least, and adequate at the work that matters most. the gap between those two is where the interesting questions about the next decade of knowledge work live.

i keep collecting AI war stories from consulting clients. the wins are always quieter than expected. the failures are always more instructive than anyone admits. what's your biggest AI success so far, and what lesson cost you the most to learn?

our Las Cruces AI meet-up keeps teaching me the interesting AI work isn't at big tech companies. it's in small rooms where someone says "i replaced a $40K SaaS tool with a RAG system i built." www.meetup.com/las-cruces-a...

the thing nobody talks about with live-in help vs. renting is that you're choosing between two completely different household ecosystems. one optimizes for income. the other optimizes for daily life running smoothly. not the same problem. www.lascrucesroomrental.com

built vVv Gaming in 2007. nineteen years later the community is smaller and the conversations are better. right now it's gaming, sports, and figuring out what AI tools actually mean for our daily lives. come through if that sounds like your kind of Discord. discord.gg/qYvMHBX678

reciprocity in action month, so i'm teaching what i know. free 6-week AI bootcamp for Weaving Us members starting May 20. not lectures. bring a real challenge, we work it together. aspeninstitute.surveymonkey.com/r/G6RKDJ7

facilitating an AI boot camp for the Aspen Institute's Weave community starting May 20th. six sessions through July 15th, noon ET. designed for people doing relational community work, not corporate productivity hacks. no AI experience needed. weaving.us/posts/101352...

wrote about the structure underneath every decision that ever mattered: does the person making the call bear the cost when it goes wrong? ai breaks that. the essay is about what comes next. lordjerith.substack.com/p/bear-the-c...

wrote about why AI collaboration feels so different from human collaboration. it's not the speed. it's the total absence of self-protection. turns out most team friction has nothing to do with the work. open.substack.com/pub/lordjeri...

in naval nuclear engineering, no procedure is theoretical. every checklist item maps to a real failure. it made me permanently suspicious of the instinct to tear down rules i don't understand yet. not knowing why the fence is there isn't an argument for removing it.

ego in collaboration isn't just a bug. it's a signal. it tells you what someone cares about, where they'll fight, where they'll compromise. zero ego means zero signals. nobody's frameworks account for that yet. lordjerith.substack.com/p/no-ego-no-...

john hardwig argued in 1985 that most of what we believe, we believe because we trust someone else's reasons. organizations industrialized that dependency. now the artifacts that laundered authority are cheap to fake. lordjerith.substack.com/p/say-who-ha...

everyone's arguing about whether the 20% number is right. that's the wrong frame. enterprise AI deployment is compounding. the snapshot doesn't matter. the rate of change matters. and the rate is accelerating. futurism.com/artificial-i...

running an ai meetup in las cruces where you actually use the tools instead of just hearing about them. 30 minutes of content, rest of the time you're building. www.meetup.com/las-cruces-a...

wrote for el paso matters on why the region's brain drain isn't just about pay. ai readiness is a competitive advantage. workers notice when their employer falls behind. elpasomatters.org/2026/04/06/e...

most teams can't name their trust architecture. that's why ai rollouts feel destabilizing even when the tools work. i've worked within six different ones. ai breaks each at a different point. lordjerith.substack.com/p/name-your-...

keep ending up in rooms i wasn't supposed to be in. navy reactor plants, consulting war rooms, game studios, esports orgs. same question every time: how do difficult people work together without it falling apart. now ai's in those rooms. lordjerith.substack.com

gave an ai lecture to local business leaders today. one concept hit: specification vs context vs intent vs prompt engineering. most orgs are stuck tweaking prompts when they should be thinking about intent. deploying ai isn't a tech problem. it's a people problem.

been running weekly game sessions for years. the thing games do better than anything else: strip away the performance layer. you see who people actually are. ai is doing the same thing to work. teaching a bootcamp on it in may. weaving.us/posts/99878203

most ai guides assume you code. ruben hassid wrote one for people who don't and never will. if the jargon has kept you out, this is your entry point. ruben.substack.com/p/claude-code