Everyone is exhausted by AI takes. This is the one conversation designed to end the conversation — so audiences leave able to stand on equal footing with the technologists promoting it, instead of just nodding along.
Covers why AI sounds alive when it isn’t, what that has to do with a 200-year-old novel most people have gotten wrong, what “lock-in costs” really are, and why a literate mind is the best defense against language built to sound like a person.
Track: Product & AI.
How small groups facing impossible odds prioritize, simplify, and focus — via Philadelphia strikes and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
The AI/ML era’s chief ontological problem began with an anthropomorphized metaphor — grounding machine capabilities back in reality.
A childhood errand to a derelict Air Force station in the Pacific Northwest woods, and the stranger in an old jumpsuit who offered to show him around.
A simple truth of life is that we all influence and shape it, through our actions and choices. This is what karma means, not a ledger of good and bad deeds, with rewards and punishments dolled out, rather, the collective effect of every choice we all make. And by all, I mean all, not just […]
In December 2023, I was in year 5 of my CPTSD therapy. I weighed 361 pounds. I’d been diagnosed with pre-diabetes. I had trapped myself in a miserable story of self-destruction. And worse? I spread the misery around me. I needed to change my story. I read everything I could find about what happens to […]
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