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Planning an AI Hackathon for Real Impact (Part 1 of 3)
How to Set the Stage for an AI Hackathon that Delivers Real Impact—From Rapid Prototypes to Market-Ready Solutions
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Taylor T Black
Embracing Theosis: Nuptial Union as Sacramental Love
A surprising detour into neuroscience, sex, and pair-bonding—charting strange new territory beyond my usual innovation, cognition and philosophy.
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Taylor T Black
AI Hackathons in the Age of Multi‑Agent Systems
A few things I've seen that help in building, organizing, and executing a successful hackathon in the multi-agent space.
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Taylor T Black
Adaptive Complexity: Reimagining the Innovation Portfolio as a Complex Adaptive System
How signals, boundaries, and adaptive mutations can transform innovation portfolios into living, learning ecosystems.
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Taylor T Black
The Myth of Originality
Why true innovation emerges from imitation, disciplined curiosity, and idea abundance
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Taylor T Black
Friendship in Revolt
Rejecting the Modern Myth That All Bonds Bend Toward Romance—Rediscovering Aristotle, C.S. Lewis, and the Six Dimensions of Authentic Connection
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Taylor T Black
The Hidden Wellspring of Human Flourishing
How Worship Anchors Culture, Clarifies Insight, and Unleashes Human Flourishing
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Taylor T Black
The Innovation Flywheel: Crafting the Ideal Venture Ecosystem
How Corporations, Venture Studios, and Deep Tech Fuse to Fuel Innovation
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When the World Came Alive
Meaning and the pursuit of the unrestricted desire to know
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Taylor T Black
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May 2025

Embracing a More Human Future
How reclaiming leisure, reshaping economies, and renewing human skills can turn AI disruption into abundant renewal.
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Taylor T Black
Human Knowing and Machine Learning: Aquinas, Lonergan, and Statistical Intelligence
A deep comparative study for Thomists, Lonerganians, and AI theorists exploring how human knowing both parallels and diverges from artificial knowing…
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Taylor T Black
Friendships of Virtue in an Age of “Whatever”
Aristotle on Friendship: Pleasure, Utility, and Virtue
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