Upon the recommendation of a host of various people, I am working my way through the Dungeon Crawler Carl series which, as many of you clearly know, has its share of bizarre character classes. The author of the series, Matt Dinniman, appears to be around the same vintage as I from the last millennium, so seeing as we’re the smallest generation of living adults, it’s nice to see us unlock some achievements as it were.…
Building on last week’s post about liberal arts majors having value in this brave new AI world, here’s Daniel Pink (whom longtime readers may remember I posted about at the beginning of the year) and he lists six skills in his usual pithy style. You can absolutely use them to make yourself more valuable in the workplace (void where Skynet goes full murderbot or bosses go towards “maximizing innovative synergies”).
As the seven or nine longtime readers of this blog will recall, I love a good movie trailer, which I define as a trailer that gives you that emotional tone of the story and type or story you’ll be going on with said film… without revealing too much of the story. Indeed, I would say the central question such a trailer should ask is “Look at this! Can’t you imagine what kind of journey you’ll…
It’s the weekend and weekend plans are upon me, including both reading and writing some sci-fi stories, so I wanted to leave you with something thematic to ponder. I too love words. And ranking… as much as I may not agree with others’ rankings. Is it as much as other people dislike my ranking? Probably not (though some people clearly like it). But in any case, ‘ansible’ is A tier.
The shadow of AI continues to loom over the workplace as the AI companies have their IPOs, but don’t worry, McSweeney’s has a handy guide to understanding the economics of the situation. Meanwhile, on a personal level, you might be wondering how your job may or may not be impacted or outright obliterated by the implementation of AI. However, thinking of my AI post last month, there are several people who are noting the sometime…
With another Father’s Day in the rear-view mirror, I happened across this older article by Brigid Schulte for the Washington Post about how dads also want to have it all. It’s from 2013 and a book of hers also delves into the modern overwhelm, which I should check out. But I also found myself wondering about what studies have happened since then, what the Pandemic did to help or hinder that quest for it all…
It’s Loving Day today, a relatively recent and unofficial day celebrating the anniversary of the 1967 decision in Loving v Virginia which struck down laws banning mixed-race marriages. I’ve been reading and watching more about the 1920s recently and this article by Bryan Green for Smithsonian magazine reminded me of how much class and race were very much on the minds of ‘proper’ folk then — to say nothing of eugenics. It’s well worth a…
As AI continues to tap-dance through the zeitgeist of society, I don’t have any family references this week, but I do have an Archer/Kenny Loggins reference, and isn’t that the same? An AI chatbot would say so… unless you correct it. Anyway, OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX are all looking to have IPOs this year which has market musing being cranked up to 11 (if you want analysis in manic video style, Hank Green has your…
Growing up, my dad exposed us to a number of board games and, while he was open to all sorts of game mechanics, he especially enjoyed the wonkily strategic ones that might be best described as “simulations.” Yes, we’re talking cardboard chits and plenty of rules in strict number-outline order about how those cardboard chits operate. My dad was tough to beat in such simulations, because he absorbed the rules with a precision that many…
A little over a year ago, I felt the need to post a motivational video about beginnings. Today, we’re beyond beginning, into persisting with a video from Lewis Woods that reminds us that it’s not about the expectant outcome, but the journey and the journey and, yeah, we’re still journeying. And it doesn’t hurt that he references the always reliable Bryan Cranston. So keep on showing up. Keep on creating. True, one day you might…