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18 May

The Game Never Stops: Economy – Humanity – Scale

Amazon recently introduced one-hour shipping in many locations. Unmistakably a triumph of logistics, resource planning, and automation, it is also unmistakably a triumph of instant gratification. The argument can be made reasonably that one-hour shipping satisfies a consumer need to...
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14 May

“Now Where Are The Jobs?”

AI puts the squeeze on new grads — and the colleges that promised to make them employable ‘I feel helpless’: college graduates can’t find entry-level roles in shrinking market amid rise of AI Recent college graduates face a new...
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11 May

Back to Baseline

A sharpened stone and an agentic coding AI both offer utility. The sharpened stone assists in mobbing a prehistoric mastodon for dinner. The agentic AI helps reach a working solution with less manual coding. Both are tools, and neither is...
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22 May

Legitimate & Utterly Useless Fear of Generative AI

⚪ This document is certified 100% AI-free ⚪ (It’s kind of a joke, and also it’s not) It’s not really surprising, but I’ve seen — like everybody else — the concern over AI rising in proportion to the ascendance...
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18 Sep

A Brief Discourse on Work

The usefulness of work is a deep, deep topic with many corners and branches; no single discussion can comprehend it. To the question of “why do we work?” — The simplest answer, and perhaps the most historic, is to say...
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