You are perched on a narrow ledge of wet limestone, your front knobby hunting for bite on a greasy diagonal root, and the rider ahead of you stops, turns around, and shouts the standard advice: “Look up! Keep your eyes down the trail!” You try it, you force your chin up toward the next bend
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A simple three-tiered decision framework—hats, haircuts, and tattoos—to eliminate analysis paralysis and match deliberation to risk.
It took me 10 years, a few thousand dollars, plenty of annoyingly cold and wet riding days, and burning more AI tokens than I care to admit, trying to understand how textile motorcycle gear actually works. I’m not talking about leather versus textile, or armor ratings, or any of the stuff that gets covered ad
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When YouTube creators scale to millions, information drifts from education into entertainment. The business model reveals what’s really happening.
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My friend Mike and I rode the Engelberg-Trübsee gondola in February 2015. It was one of those overcast days where the fog sits in the valley like a blanket, and you can’t see more than a few hundred meters in front of the gondola. We got on at the base in Engelberg, rode up through
A friend of mine lent me a book a few months ago at Angel Falls, our usual coffee spot in Akron. It’s called Taekwondo: Ancient Wisdom for the Modern Warrior by Doug Cook. He’s into martial arts, and I think he thought I’d appreciate the philosophical side of it. He was right, but maybe not
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. He was executing commands on a different machine,
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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