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Where do jobs come from? The economic answer is relatively straightforward. Employers provide a desired good or service, and they hire workers with the range of skills they need to provide that good or service. But from a worker point of...
While walking my dog the other day, I heard a cardinal singing nearby. I couldn't spot it right away, so I stopped to look up in the trees to find it. The trees weren't very dense so it took less than 30 seconds to find the small,...
I wonder if I would appreciate summer as much as I do now, if winter wasn’t as brutal as it is? That yearly anticipation makes the joys I can experience now feel more pronounced.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote No Time, an entry jotting four topics that I wanted to expand on but didn't have time to before. Now, I'm ready to reply. The nearest grocery store to us, in the woods, is 12 minutes away. The closest...
Last week (see here and here), I mentioned how I recently re-discovered that Adam Smith published a 79-page pamphlet in 1784 containing 13 separate inserts or “additions” to the first two editions of The Wealth of Nations (1776, 1778)....
Pound for pound, one of the smartest decisions I’ve ever made in my life was joining a clown troupe.“Thought you were already a clown?” was the most common response I got from the people in my life with whom I shared this news, and to...
It’s well-known that LLM usage has changed communication in lots of ways: From slop grenades to automated emails, the erosion of real communication is there for all to see. I’ve noticed another trend: instead of receiving emails that ask...
Happy Pride. I'm glad that I'm still here, that you're still here. I'm proud of who you are and who you are becoming. Thank you for being here. The world is scary, but you are not alone. You are never alone. There is still time. It is...
Streaming platform Tidal lays out its AI content policy. The headline decisions are that AI-generated music will be labeled and cannot be monetized. The challenge will of course be enforcement. On that, Tidal says:→ TIDAL - High Fidelity...
During the Steam Summer Sale, I picked up Ace of Seafood, a 2016 plane-combat-parody-game??? where you play as a fish who is trying to conquer the ocean. I haven't played a lot of fighter jet combat games like Ace Combat, but I've played...
I’m all at sea. The ship is called the “James Joyce”. It took me a while to get onboard as the instructions were extremely long and difficult to understand. I decided to take this route to the UK for a change and I must say it is very...
While I was looking for a job earlier this year, I worked on ProMe (pronounced “pro-may”), a companion app for the solo TTRPG called “The Protector’s Memories”, created by Enzo Salviato. What started as a quick and dirty little tool to...
Use AI to make things clearer, not longer. Let it sharpen your thinking, not replace it. FROM: noslopgrenade.com No Slop Grenade. Source This is a corollary to not letting others do your writing and thinking for you.
There is a difference between knowing something, and truly understanding it. I think we've all had those moments, the ones where a truth you learned a long time ago really sits with you for the first time. It rests in your mind and...
Heya all. So, once more I feel the need to blog something but didn’t have any singular impactful event, so here’s a bunch of shit that happened to me recently. Feel free to skip around. I’m almost done with my Masters Degree which thank...