The JPLA

Riverboat Acting Dreams

Sushi. Myers-Briggs. Main Street, USA. The Golden Eagle. Institutional Balancing Act. The Devils. A Pitching Masterpiece. Counting Crows.

Jul 11 • 

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May 2025

Endless Perks

Carless People. Facebook. Memoir and Mary Karr. Infinite Jest. Cardinals. Entropy. And Pandoc.

May 24 • 

J. Scott

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The Importance of Diving Deep, 80s DeVry Style

The Daily Drucker. Organizational Theory. Insurance. Tom Cruise Movies.

May 2 • 

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March 2025

Productivity Messiness

Illusions. Roam Research. Notion. The Database Wars. Zettelkasten. Mistborn. Cardinals First Base Statistics. Entropy. Copyright and Fair Use.

Mar 29 • 

J. Scott

Leading From The Front

Comments. Overton Windows. Easter Eggs. Philip II. Macedonian Culture. Alexander And Leadership Principles.

Mar 12 • 

J. Scott

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February 2025

Contra: Where Reaction Ends, Control Begins.

Arcade Cabinets. LucasArts. Sierra. Zangief's Spinning Piledriver. DeepSeek. Steam Deck. The Tipping Point. And Lady GaGa.

Feb 14 • 

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January 2025

Grocery Store Wars

Deal or no deal? Kroger and Albertsons.

Jan 19

VHS Glory

Writing Milestones. Hofstadter’s Law. Decades. Older Work. And Return To Knight Field.

Jan 12 • 

J. Scott

The Qwen AI Model: Constraints, Nuance, and Toppling Statues

Top Tech Stories. Overfitting. Censorship. 3D Printing. Pandas. Scrooged. Jimmy Carter.

Jan 6 • 

J. Scott

December 2024

Anyone Can Eat

The Bear. Netflix. Mesa Grill Rolls. Cup 4 Cup. Yoda. Airborne Toxic Event. The Life Impossible. Brain Rot. Hemingway.

Dec 12, 2024 • 

J. Scott

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November 2024

From the Desk of Richard Saunders

And a counterpoint by Serena Scott.

Nov 16, 2024

Writing Clone Part Deux

Python Projects. Election Pandering. George Lucas. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. The Infinity Gauntlet. Grammarly.

Nov 15, 2024 • 

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