Posted inCommentary Living
Orion and stars for the season
A different Christmas message to my friends in a world that maybe already has too many difficult stories.
Posted inHistory Living Technology
Does 1950s “mechanization” provide a roadmap for today’s AI influence on skill?
Will AI behave like earlier automation? What affect will AI have on skill requirements? They're open questions.
Posted inBook Review Living
Book review: Sheila Liming’s Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time
A timely, well wrought book. I dive pretty deeply in jam, which can be sticky.
Posted inCommentary History Living
Going underground to get aboveground
"I've confined my quest to the underground that is not the domain of the vice squad. (No time.)"
Posted inCommentary Living
Hanging out with artists in The Ark
The Ark was the birthplace of Duke basketball. Maybe conversations started there can ignite creative indolence and a truer excellence, too.
Posted inCommentary Living Technology
Through our window
When a choice of teeny Gorilla Glass or a picture window makes a difference. Thinking about which reality you want to live in.
Posted inLiving
I make a numerical mistake. Then I think about two rivers
How do you gauge progress in a writing project? I really should have been writing something else this week....
Posted inAutomobiles History Technology
Out to pasture
The passing of the horse ... and into the clean world of the car!
Posted inHistory Living Technology
Boston bakers, more or less
In 1998, Microsoft Windows was a Boston baker. If bread is the product, does the process matter to the people who bake? Plus, observations about WFH from the 1990s.
Posted inHistory Technology
Muzak. Like the air, only sweeter
You might hate it. You might find it useful. The pleasant history and on-going conundrum of "background music."