Wild Rye

The Center for Humane Technology is working to popularize the term “AI drift,” describing a model’s tendency to degrade in performance over time.

I’ve been working for years on “life garden” document, trying to come up with an at-a-glance view of where my life is working and where it isn’t.

I just heard that Annie Dillard, a writer who expressed the wonder and wildness of the natural world, has passed away.

I just got from the library Kevin Kelly’s book Excellent Advice for Life: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier.

It took about 50 years for the automation of elevators to eliminate the job of elevator operator.

If we design and construct buildings to suit our purposes, why do some buildings adapt with us as our purposes change, but other buildings refuse to change?

Did Jorge Luis Borges foresee a future crafted by Artificial Intelligence?

You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

I’ve been using David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” methodology almost as long as GTD has been around.

Correlation is not the same as causation, I get that.

I’m old enough to remember the warning about social media, “if you’re not paying for the product, then you’re the product.”

I have to say that “respect” isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Slab City, an informal community of faded snowbirds, desert rats, creatives, burnt-out meth heads, and a few others who simply want to drop off the grid.

Here’s to the start of another year.

One way to bring life back to the internet is to make it weird again.