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Continue Reading: Learning From a Good PlaceLearning From a Good Place
The following is an amended and slightly updated version of a piece I wrote many years ago, in which I outlined some of the roles that community and…
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Continue Reading: Complementary Virtues, or Save FerrisComplementary Virtues, or Save Ferris
In John Hughes’ 1986 classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Ferris, Sloane, and Cameron visit the Art Institute of Chicago. Cameron, struggling in many areas of his life, finds…
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Continue Reading: True Curiosity Activation, a.k.a. Crowd-Pleasing StepsTrue Curiosity Activation, a.k.a. Crowd-Pleasing Steps
I read this Substack post a couple days ago and noted with interest the way its point dovetailed with my own recent readings about the nature of curiosity.…
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Continue Reading: The Hugging Face Situation, or When We Leave Our Brainchild Home AloneThe Hugging Face Situation, or When We Leave Our Brainchild Home Alone
I recently read Cory Doctorow’s piece on Medium, “LLMs are real, AI is fake,” in which he beautifully dismantles the alleged “threat” posed by the LLMs of tech…
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Continue Reading: Curiouser and Curiouser…Curiouser and Curiouser…
One of the more grating moments of the rebooted Doctor Who series from the late aughts occurred in the episode “The Sontaran Stratagem.” The scene in question involved…
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Continue Reading: Content Development vs Content DevelopmentContent Development vs Content Development
A couple years ago, my wife and I had the chance to fulfill a decades-long dream of visiting Australia. There are a hundred stories worth telling from this…
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