The first time I saw someone use a terminal to control a remote computer, I didn’t understand what I was watching. I was a student at the University of Akron. An IT support guy sat down, opened a window, and typed something. Then he was somewhere else. Not metaphorically. He was executing commands on a
The data on AI and suicide doesn’t support the panic — and the panic itself may be costing lives. Twelve documented AI-linked deaths against 49,000 annual suicides. The ratio matters.
A few weeks ago, I had a hankering for some sci-fi. Not Marvel sci-fi. Not blockbuster sci-fi. I wanted the weird stuff — cerebral, indie, atmospheric. The kind of movie that leaves you staring at the ceiling afterward. So I did what any reasonable person would do. I Googled it. What I got was a
How a conspiracy video became a case study in AI-assisted fact-checking — and why dismissing AI as a research tool might be the wrong move.
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I was in Brussels for FOSDEM and discovered that Europeans have hardcore bathroom capitalism — tap-to-pay turnstiles to use the toilet. Meanwhile, in “capitalist” America, bathrooms are free. The labels don’t match reality.
Who We Are I was sitting at a bar the other night, just leaning into the hum of the room. The guy on the stool next to me was easy to talk to—the kind of stranger you feel like you’ve known for years after just ten minutes. We talked about the local football scores, the
Secular Incrementalism Modern life often defaults to a “passive nihilism”—the quiet assumption that if there is no God and no absolute meaning handed down to us, we are free to invent our own (Existentialism). Often, to survive this cold reality—as inventing one’s own meaning in life involves a lot of pressure—we unassertively devise meaning by
I didn’t know Joe Rogan until the podcast era; I vaguely knew him as a “meh” comedian. But when the Joe Rogan Experience (JRE) began, it was genuinely groundbreaking. It started as an alternative, and I feel like it doesn’t get enough credit for that early vision. What made it great wasn’t just Rogan talking
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I recently finished the Executive Presence and Influence: Persuasive Leadership Development class through Wharton. During the class, I took really good notes. I used these notes, and all of the homework to create an Executive Coach in a Gemini Gem. Basically, a Gemini Gem gives you a way to pre-seed any questions you ask the
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I have a flashes of a specific memory from a long forgotten yearly sales kick-off meeting circa 2014. There were roughly 1000 of us at this kick-off, and I probably knew hundreds of the people personally. If you’ve never been in a large sales team, these are huge events that corporate America spends large sums
