Updating the Framework: Lessons Learned from Whatcom County’s Broadband Journey
After years of fieldwork and public partnership, we updated our white paper with a Whatcom County case study and what we learned abou...
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Updating the Framework: Lessons Learned from Whatcom County’s Broadband Journey
After years of fieldwork and public partnership, we updated our white paper with a Whatcom County case study and what we learned about costs, permitting, and competition.
In Project, Gigabit Whatcom, Oct 16, 2026
Mapping the Divide: An Assessment of Broadband Access in Whatcom County
Official maps overstated coverage. Our ground-level assessment found the real gaps in upload speed, cost, and infrastructure.
In Project, Gigabit Whatcom, Sep 10, 2026
Community Organizing in Action: The McGee Road Local Loop Project
Theory meets the ground: how neighbors along McGee Road organized, partnered with the Port and PUD, and put their corridor on the map.
In Project, Gigabit Whatcom, Dec 15, 2024
Beyond Fundamentalism
Religious conservatives have given fundamentalism a bad reputation. The underlying idea, however, has a respectable philosophical cousin called foundationalism: knowledge rests on a f...
In Experience and Understanding, Aug 05, 2022
Learning from Mistakes
The “Frog and Peach” comedy routine features Dudley Moore interviewing an eccentric restaurant owner, Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling, played by Peter Cook. Cook describes in detail a fai...
In Foundations of Knowing, Jul 25, 2022
Creating Everyone, Everywhere Affordable Broadband Access: The Core Framework
To turn public fiber into a roadmap for local leaders, we published a framework built on symmetrical speeds, neighborhood-scale projects, and open access.
In Project, Gigabit Whatcom, Jul 24, 2022
Trial & Error vs Recipe
Problem-solving can be seen broadly as changing a situation from one state to another. This view covers a host of human endeavors. Most often, the end state is a goal or objective. Pr...
In Foundations of Knowing, Jul 24, 2022
How Math Works
Math stands apart in discussions of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Other fields of endeavor rely on mathematics to create models of theories and work produc...
In Experience and Understanding, Jul 19, 2022
Experience of Reality
In the 1999 movie The Matrix, the scene What is Real? shows the main character, Neo, connected to a computer simulation by a jack in the back of his head. Once in the simulation, Neo ...
In Experience and Understanding, Jul 17, 2022
Feelings
Feelings are very important. Emotional Intelligence (EI), as popularized by Daniel Goleman, is usually described as having five characteristics:
In Experience and Understanding, Jul 09, 2022