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AI-generated historical illustration of civilians leaving a walled nineteenth-century Chinese city, with period soldiers and smoke in the distance.

October 20, 2026·TREVOR DALE

The Civil War You Never Learned About

While America fought its Civil War, China endured the Taiping Rebellion. Two different conflicts, one historical era—and a reminder that historical familiarity is not the same as historical importance.

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People of different backgrounds listening to one another around a shared table in warm morning light.

September 28, 2026·TREVOR DALE

Keep the Faith

Faith can give us strength without granting us ownership of someone else’s conscience. On belief, pluralism, and the freedom to disagree without surrendering our place beside one another.

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A moody department store at night where a robot arm, a car, a medical scanner, a smart speaker, and factory machines sit on shelves, each marked with the same small gold AI label.

September 23, 2026·TREVOR DALE

AI Is Not One Thing

A chatbot, a self-driving car, a cancer-detection model, and a deepfake all wear the same two-letter label. AI is not one technology — it is a family of them, and the differences are where the real decisions live.

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A patient at the center of an interconnected healthcare system linking clinicians, a rural home, broadband infrastructure, health data, payment, and government.

September 19, 2026·TREVOR DALE

There Are No More Simple Problems in Healthcare

Preventive care sounds simple—until it depends on connected devices, broadband, clinical workflow, workforce capacity, payment, policy, and public trust. The real challenge is making the answers work together.

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September 16, 2026·TREVOR DALE

A Quarter of U.S. Healthcare Is Waste. Here Is How to Take It Out.

Roughly 25 percent of U.S. health spending buys nothing a patient would call care. Identifying that is easy. This is a Lean and Six Sigma playbook for actually removing it — across clinical operations, technology, collaboration, chronic care, and the payment structures that must change to make it stick.

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June 17, 2022·TREVOR DALE

This Is a Process Story

From the Navy to technology and Lean Six Sigma, a personal account of why process, structure, and continuous improvement matter.

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June 17, 2015·TREVOR DALE

Kanban and Kaizen

Why sustainable performance improvement comes from clear workflows, small accumulated changes, and the people closest to the work.

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