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July 2026

The Technology Was Never the Problem
Four companies, and the people who were right too early. What actually stopped them, and the one thing that is finally different.
 • Daniel Pettus
The Data Was Public. The Reasoning Wasn't.
I want to talk about the public data marts that have been hiding in plain sight, why I reached into them long before it was fashionable, and why an AI…
 • Daniel Pettus
The Toll Booth
The reasoning is getting better every year. The only question left is whether we will be allowed to plug it in.
 • Daniel Pettus
Nobody Failed
Why I keep building a thing the system was never designed to want
 • Daniel Pettus
Self-Driving Medicine Already Works. Just Not in America
The most advanced piece of autonomous technology in his day was not in any hospital. It was under his seat.
 • Daniel Pettus
I Watched Kodak Die From the Inside of a Darkroom
What a wedding photography side business taught me about market disruption, and why I am not afraid of AI
 • Daniel Pettus
We manage our sickest patients by reacting. After 40 years, I think that is the mistake.
A working demonstration of a different method, and a question I need you to answer.
 • Daniel Pettus
Bench, Bedside, Garage
A bench prototype is allowed to lie about being finished. A patient is not.
 • Daniel Pettus

June 2026

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