Producer. Teacher. Writer. Apparently, I was supposed to pick a world and stay in it. Twenty-five years of film sets, English lessons, and unexpected detours later, those worlds had plenty to say to each other. Then a student misread “Al Capone” and another story began.

An English lesson, one misread letter, and a digital mob boss. Paul Ponce revisits the unexpected moment that sparked A.I. Capone: The Digital Don.