The contribution of “childless cat ladies” to society The BBC’s post about Usha Vance defending her husband’s “childless cat ladies” remark has prompted me to put a few words to paper. In my world, today’s wicked problems are...
Thought-provoking. Evidently, children must be protected from stories about wolves in fairy tale forests (that may have been used to warn young women in factories to be wary of wolf-ish men). Obviously, no need to worry about guns. The text below the two girls says,...
Don’t be a dick. In my on-going business development experiments, I do a lot of emailing. Whilst I was putting my email together this morning, I wanted to write, “Bottom line? You don’t want to be a dick.” I didn’t write it. It would...
The legacy of the A23a iceberg I’ve never thought of icebergs as having a destiny before, but this paragraph has made me think differently: “Their destiny is to fragment and wither to nothing. Their legacy is the ocean life they seed by dropping entrained...
To comma or not to comma, that is the question In creating the “hopeful, sustainable futures” project, I was struck by a moment of uncertainty. Although I always separate hopeful and sustainable with a comma (this is a phrase I use a great deal in my...
AI is not the puppet master Stop saying “AI did this” or “AI made that.” That’s the long-story-short version of Scott Rosenberg’s brilliant article about AI and human agency. Oftimes, humans like to talk about artificial...
