GMJoe™ Consulting examines ASML, the largely invisible company whose lithography systems sit beneath the world’s most advanced semiconductors—and asks what its bottleneck reveals about structural power, dependency, and the physical foundations of AI.
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The Global Power Architecture
GMJoe™ Consulting introduces The Global Power Architecture, a new essay series examining the companies civilization cannot easily route around—and the hidden dependencies, bottlenecks, and structural power beneath the global economy.
Still Me
Still Me is a reflection on identity after obligation—on discovering that relevance, purpose, and selfhood do not disappear when the schedule, title, and external demands begin to fall away. It is about learning that the essential self remains, even when nobody is asking you to perform a role.
Sometimes the Son Becomes the Steward
A creator may not live long enough to understand the ultimate value of what he leaves behind. This essay explores intellectual property, preservation, and why a body of work should be understood before anyone decides what it is worth—or what can be discarded.
GMJoe™ Consulting Friday Briefing
GMJoe™ Consulting makes the upstream inference explicit: the real story is not any single Musk company or product, but the emergence of an integrated Earth-orbit infrastructure system. As communications, compute, manufacturing, AI, and space infrastructure begin reinforcing one another, the value may migrate from individual technologies to the architecture connecting them.
When Good News Becomes Bad News
A libertarian laissez-faire economist looks beyond the monthly jobs number to the deeper architecture of modern finance: why markets now react less to employment itself than to what employment may cause the Federal Reserve to do. The real question is not whether the economy is strong or weak, but who gets to decide the price of money.
I’m Here
A reflection on retirement, relevance, and the freedom of no longer having to be somewhere in order to matter. “I’m Here” explores the shift from externally assigned time to self-directed attention, and the realization that being fully engaged with life no longer requires leaving home.
The Test Range Is No Longer Enough
The next autonomous advantage may belong to places that can turn failure into adaptation faster than anyone else. For Grand Forks, that creates a larger opportunity: to become strategic infrastructure for persistent, contested experimentation where future autonomous capability is developed, stressed, and made credible.
The Architecture of Presidential Judgment
How does a President actually make a major decision? The real issue may be less about who has access and more about who controls the compression of information. Decision traceability could reveal how lobbying, agency analysis, legal review, economic modeling, and Cabinet advice become the few arguments that finally reach the Oval Office.
ACCE: The Place Where Defense Learns Before War Teaches It
Grand Forks could become more than a drone testing hub. ACCE — Access, Coordination, Communications, and Experimentation — offers a framework for testing whether future military systems, organizations, and command structures can adapt under real operational friction.