Is generative AI the best use of the world's electricity?
In a clip that starts a recent episode of the podcast Tech Won’t Save Us, Sam Altman acknowledges generative AI’s Achilles’ heel: energy.
Living in a post-growth world
Economic growth is a hell of a drug. But what do you do when the well’s run dry?
Simplicity - The lost art we must discover
21st-century living is complicated. But must it be?
Writers should kill more trees
Writing by hand is the best.
Maybe businesses should kick it old school
Why is business so hard?
The thing about the cherry on top
What will be your life’s sweetest dessert?
Simplicity is hard
If there’s one thing I’ve come to value after the last 16 years full-time in the workforce, it’s simplicity.
The right fit vs. the qualified candidate
My son is in his final year of reg-league baseball. This fall season is his next-to-last season, with his last being in the spring. It’s a bittersweet time.
This revolution is small but it matters to me
How many layers must you wade through in the search for your own writing’s common thread?
To embrace the absurb, to be human
Existence, well what does it matter?
I exist on the best terms I can
— ‘Heart and Soul’ by Joy Division
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Existentialists ask what it all means.
Nihilists say it all means nothing.
Absurdists say it all means nothing, yet we can’t help trying to attach something deeper to it.
My own outlook on life has followed this same path.