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162 entries- Jul 7Essay The Mind as Semi-Solid Smoke
This post continues the series on Socratic Thinking, turning the space-and-place lens inward to examine the mind itself. Human minds can be thought of as an imperfect place with the ability to create …
2 min - Jul 6Essay Thinking with places
“A farmer has to cut down trees to create space for his farmstead and fields. Yet once the farm is established it becomes an ordered world of meaning—a place—and beyond it is the forest and space.” — …
3 min - Jul 5Essay Chatbots, Bats & Broken Oracles
I had the strangest conversation with my son today. There used to be a time when computers never made a mistake. It was always the user that was in error. The computer did exactly what you asked it to …
7 min - Jun 28Note
This bookclub is the most fun thing I’ve done in a decade… this includes starting, expanding, and leaving a startup ;) The last fun thing was post-PhD rapid exploration of applying AI for bio, which laid the foundation for where I am now. The book club feels like a philosophical anchoring to understand complexities of …
- Jun 25Poem Life-Compass / Why We Write Poetry