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I’m still working my way through the British kings, and since I’ve been watching and
I figured I’d share a few things I’ve been noticing about myself lately. Maybe you can relate and maybe it helps to remember that we’re all just trying to figure it out as we go. The Noise Is Finally Quieter The biggest thing? I feel a...
At yesterday's Tinderbox meetup, something came up about the nature of our present circumstances, and the necessity to "change the world." In recent years, I've had little cause to reflect much here on "the world" and our role in it....
Kevin Kelly, in Your Most Improbable Life:
The pages of the first part of this volume are covered with an exhaustive detailing of disease – partly its symptoms, but always the methods for its spread, and never a word about its cures. The second part of the volume espouses the...
Invasion of the smalls
The near-polar lunar surface and environment had never been measured in-situ before Chandrayaan 3 arrived. Now our understanding of it has been grounded in measurements just as we prepare to send a wave of Moon missions.
I am very skeptical of AI. I also use it heavily on a near-daily basis. Currently, I have three paid accounts running: Claude Code through my work, ChatGPT Business through overkill1, and Gemini Pro, which I pay for myself (it comes with...
I happened to come across this post from 2015 where I discussed a remark from a political journalist who advocated “some measure of accountability . . . which allows both that very bad teachers be fired and that very good … Continue...
Governance determines the evolution of an innovation, giving society power over a technology’s ultimate form.
I’d reached the point where reaching for my phone first thing in the morning felt obviously bad and I just couldn’t stop. The scroll wasn’t even rewarding anymore, it was a reflex. I wanted a different default. You can’t doomscroll a...
One day, I'll make that change that I keep promising myself... One day.
It's time to bake the music, It's time to write th...