| Ron Bronson

Wrapped up the PDX Digital Corps experiment this week 11 July 2025 We had a small send-off yesterday for the PDX Digital Corps, a digital sprint I launched back at the end of March as a short-term experiment

The Bureaucratic Banality of Andor 29 June 2025

I’m not a Star Wars guy. I grew up a Trek fan because my best friend Sean got me into it and through the years, I identified mostly as a Trek

On Public Mechanics (or why I’m done talking about “civic tech”) 28 June 2025

I’ve spent the past decade mostly in the public sector, with one foot always planted in tech. I see both sides. But the thing that actually matters

Context Engineering for LLMs Starts With Systems, Not Prompts 20 June 2025 You can’t fix broken systems by adding more memory. You can’t solve misalignment with token limits. And you definitely can’t outsource consequence

You don’t always get a second chance (on civic moonshots) 19 June 2025 In these atomized futures where large-scale actors are working overtime to convince us we should alienate our neighbors and focus only on our own