Finished reading: Vita Contemplativa by Byung-Chul Han 📚
Currently reading: King Lear by William Shakespeare 📚
Finished reading: Concerning the Future of Souls by Joy Williams. Subtitle: 99 Stories of Azrael.
Holy smokes this is a cool book. Vintage Williams, wild & strange & unforgettable. 📚
Finished reading: Lord Emsworth and Others by P. G. Wodehouse 📚
Currently reading: Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges 📚
Currently reading: Concerning the Future of Souls by Joy Williams 📚
Two absolutely killer albumss released today. One could do worse than spend the weekend listening to these two. 🎵
Hollis Robbins, "AI & the Last Mile"
Here’s a very insightful essay on the changing role — and increasing importance of — human judgment in the world of AI: Hollis Robbins, “AI & the Last Mile.” A couple excerpts: While we worry about AI replacing human judgment, the real story may be how AI is creating a market for that judgment as a luxury good, available only to those who can pay for the “last mile” of human insight.
Parables are strange; finding your life transformed into a parable, even stranger.
Boy do I wish I had been in Chicago last Friday 🎵
