The Engine Inside the Engine (Acts)

How Artificial Intelligence Became the Grand Mirror—and What We See Staring Back -- by patrick smith ⸻ Prologue: Discovery Shortly after dawn in Seattle, Room 4B at Green Lake Elementary glows with the soft blue of a half-dozen Chromebooks. Eleven-year-olds cluster around a microphone, firing questions at the classroom'

From Fortress to Tidepool

A Journey of Individuation in the Age of AI -- by patrick smith Introduction: The Algorithmic Mirror Three months after the familiar architecture of my professional self collapsed, I found myself suspended not in liberation but in vertigo. The scaffolding that had supported Patrick Smith—factor models, fee structures, proprietary