Forgive Yourself For Your Misadventures
Someone said this to me a while ago, I wish I could remember who, but it’s helped me deal with a lot of adverse circumstances. A lot of us are…
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AI Doesn’t Innovate
2024nov25 — I was really struck by this tagline on Canva's new 2025 design report, saying "motion elements, dreamy textures, and AI innovation" would shape new design possibilities. As an AI…
Kupietz’s Infoavailability Conjecture
Where technology is concerned: "Information needs expand to fill available bandwidth." Where we used to have to fill in a one-page form, when automation arrived to make it quicker for…
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I've finally nailed what bothers me so much about those Upworthy headlines. It's that they they tell you what to think about about the video, instead of telling you what…
The most suggestive term in telecommunications
The 90 days after the creation of a new area code in which either the old or the new code may be used to dial that area is called the…
In Heaven, Everything Is Fine
I have an idea about what happens after you die. I think when you go to heaven, St. Peter lets you in, they show you to a room. You take…
Vocabulary: That Vu That Yu Du So Well
Déjà vu: a false sense that something new has been seen before Jamais vu: a feeling or impression that something familiar is unfamiliar or is being seen for the first…
Like Butter
You know, it's funny... the other day I just plugged in a backup hard drive that I haven't used in about 4 years. I looked at all the stuff was…
Man’s Fate: Stone antennae waving
Link: A Geologist Investigates a Mass Extinction at the End of the Permian Period A friend commented on the above as a warning. Well, I do believe we need not…
The Advice For All Seasons
An Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be always true; in all times, and in all…
Man’s Fate: The Beaked Shall Inherit The Earth
I believe after humans wipe themselves out a generation or two from now, the eventual next dominant species on earth will be descended from corvids. Most people think it'll be…
Linguistic Reminder: A Kudos For Your Many Agenda
Remember: 'Kudos' is singular. 'Agenda' and 'data' are plural. 'Nachos' is also singular. There is no such thing as one 'nacho'.
The Common Sense Conundrum
It seems to me that a frequent problem with most people's talk about "common sense" is not that it isn't really so common. It's that it isn't really sense.
Truth is Unknowable, Truth is Apparent
Truth is unknowable, because we can only know with our minds. I mean, no, of course truth is knowable. I'm sure, to an ant, truth is apparent: follow formic acid…
Humor: etruscanmingle.com
Time to renew again, and I just can't decide. I really thought this was going to be the domain I sold for a million bucks. What can I say? Everything…
Business Idea: The Behavioral Marketing Dance Club
This originally was posted in my blog Sloth And Dignity. I just had a great entrepreneurial idea. With things opening up again, this might just be the jackpot. Open a…