Self Made Billionaires: How Did They Do It?
In my last post I argued that the AI debate runs simultaneously at five levels (task, person, organization, economy, civilization) and that no one has agreed on which level should have standing. The civilization level, where the hardest questions live and where costs tend to concentrate, keeps getting treated as decorative. Nobody is lying. Everyone…
I heard this on The Moth Radio Hour. A five-year-old named Nina wanted to see her cousin’s body. Andy was four when he died, and he was her best friend. The adults around her, the chaplain Kate Braestrup among them, spent real energy debating whether to allow it. The reasons against were sensible. She was…
On a beautiful Sunday afternoon in the midst of the French Revolution the revolting citizens led a priest, a drunkard and an engineer to the guillotine. They ask the priest if he wants to face up or down when he meets his fate. The priest says he would like to face up so he will…
Classic cartoon. Still so very true.