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.
AI Isn’t Killing People. Loneliness Is.
Category: Psychology
The Pre-Hunt Gathering
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
The Headbutt of Truth: Why Being Right Will Get You Killed (or at Least Head-Butted)
🤯 The Headbutt of Truth: Why Being Right Will Get You Killed (or at Least Head-Butted) Listen, I made a monumental mistake fifteen years ago that I still think about. It wasn’t the flirting (I was 35, and it was before I met my wife, so cut me some slack). It wasn’t even the fact
Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine
Tim Snyder provides a rich background on Ukraine and it’s relationship with the kingdoms before Russia, all the way up to the modern day. He also argues that the war in Ukraine isn’t really about “getting the band back together” (Soviet Union), it’s more about embarrassing Ukraine and showing his own people that Russians are
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Russian Roulette and Little Green Men
From time to time, I still go back and watch this series of reporting by Simon Ostrovsky from Vice News in 2014 during the Russian invasion of Crimea. I remember watching it each day as the situation in Crimea was unfolding. Simon Ostrovsky is such a bad ass for just wondering around and asking Russian