Finding My Way Back
I said in the last post that I didn’t have a tidy ending. I still don’t, not entirely. But I’m far enough out of that dark stretch now to look back and actually see the path I took, even if I didn’t see it clearly while I was walking it. I want to be upfront […]
The Motive Matrix
A prominent businessman announces a massive charitable donation, and the internet splits into two camps. One says the money is real, people are helped, does it matter why. The other says the timing tells you everything — right when a tax bill comes due — this was never really about the cause. Both camps are […]
The Despair Over the Earthly: What AI Reveals About Intelligence
Somewhere along the way, “intelligence” stopped being a quiet human trait and became a competition. We built ladders out of it — IQ scores, gifted programs, SAT numbers, elite acceptance letters, the “smartest person in the room” as a kind of secular sainthood. Entire industries exist to measure it, rank it, credential it, and sell […]
AI Induced the Five Stages of Grief in me
I once met a TV repair man in the 90s sitting idly in his shop. He wasn’t going out of business dramatically — just quietly winding down, the way trades do when the world stops needing them at the pace it used to. He didn’t seem angry about it. Just tired in a way that […]