Re: The Gentle Singularity - Sam Altman Sam Altman of Open AI wrote a very hopeful essay about the net positive results expected with AI accelerated technological progress. As this is a topic I write about quite often, here's my four cents. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic I’m currently in a
Re: The death of the corporate job. (Alex McCann of Still Wandering) The Great Irony of The Great Pretending.
Being everywhere all at once Right now I’m on the fashion runways of New York Fashion Week, right now I’m in the midst of Gen Z revolution in Kathmandu, and right now I’m in the floods of Jonglei in South Sudan. Today is the closest I’ve ever been to omnipresence. “What
How to be a narcissist without being an asshole In an infamous Pickle Rick episode of the animated show Rick and Morty, the narcissistic asshole Rick, literally turns himself into a pickle, to avoid family therapy. One character development later, the main character has this memorable exchange with the therapist: Rick: Because I don’t respect therapy, because I’
The night Cinderella died Ten years ago I was throwing knives, and things didn’t go as expected. While the sharp steel rotated above my head, I quickly grabbed a glass to catch an off-guard wasp disturbing my performance. As the glass entrapped the wasp and the knives split lemons for cocktails just an
Promise Like the rest of the 90s kids I was told I was special. My early decades were wide open and stuffed with opportunity. Where my parents were given no promises, I was given them all. Computers were booming, the internet was coming fast and flying cars seemed to be around