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“Beyond the mountains, more mountains.” – Haitian proverb
As I wrapped up my work yesterday, I looked around my home office and flashed back to my home office 30 years earlier. My “office” back then was a desk in a small one-bedroom Studio City apartment, with a single 3-shelf bookcase. Today,...
Voting with your wallet seems like it's worthwhile, but the very rich have so much bigger wallets than you do.
I really like this diagram, which uses as a touchstone classic pyramid of the capitalist system cartoons. The twist is that it’s not making a point about workers but about the planet as a whole. Source: LinkedIn
For those new to CabbieBlog or readers who are slightly forgetful, on Saturdays I’m republishing posts, many going back over a decade. Some will still be very relevant while others have become dated over time. Just think of this post as...
I am very much thinking about this at the moment. Source: Are.na
Okay friends, I think it needs to be stated that none of the photos on my wee blog are AI, none of the words are either. When I quote something, I’m usually typing it out while eyeballing it in a paper book. And I’ve usually underlined...
The Bearming palettes page has a new look — split preview cards showing light and dark mode, a one-click copy button, and three new Swedish-named palettes.
I feel as though I've been neglecting the marmot. The new house is consuming much of my attention, and it's a bit exhausting. We're learning a lot of lessons that we will almost certainly never need to know again, so I'll pass a few...
A trip report of a spring trip to Sunnycroft’s historic house, rounded off with lunch at Attingham Park.
From “Daredevil Noir,” an alternate history story with the Daredevil characters set in the 1930s, a gangster acting gangsterish: There’s an interesting peculiarity to the background: the marquee (currently showing The Mask of Zorro,...
AI equips the layperson to impersonate an expert, producing output that has all the hallmarks of expert judgement—except for the judgement itself. I have several family members in academia, so the phenomenon being discussed in this piece...