Category: currentaffairs
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Nobel Laureates
I love the time sink of a day that follows the announcing of Nobel Laureates. I spend most of a Saturday diving down rabbit holes to try and understand even a modicum of the award winners’ work. This year was no disappointment. The Nobel in Physics was awarded for “for groundbreaking inventions in the field […]
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Cows + Cars
It is the thing of lore and glory to be on the stage at Techcrunch Disrupt. This year LIGHTHOUSE made the “second” stage as part of a health + wellness track – not quite the big chance at glory, but I still got a first hand look at The Show. Big Value: I met the […]
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John McCain
After a great week of talking about honor, integrity and duty, me and The Fellas wore our matching McCain shirts on Friday I went to see Senator McCain resting in state at the AZ capital building. It was moving and inspiring.
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The Future of College
My time at Northwestern is probably the most important, ahem, five years of my life. Formative years, the St. X ethos and hourly wages helped me convert on that potential, but the NU experience has been invaluable. The Fellas are still a solid sight years away from the big transition, but I’m already wrestling with […]
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Vroom
I just sat at my desk for 24 hours watching a mixed set of race cars tearing it up. I was only loosely familiar with Le Mans — I knew phrases like “24 hour race” and “streets of France” — but not much more. My interest was piqued, my schedule was pretty open, so about […]
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Okay, maybe self-driving cars is a thing…
I’ve mostly ignored self-driving cars except for occasionally peering into a Google Maps vehicle. I’ll admit, I’ve been working off three long-ago formed biases. My computer degree in 1875 had a focus in Artificial Intelligence, and in particular, vision (as opposed to image or voice). Back then the Roomba was a fantasy and the idea […]
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Unstable Immigration Perspective
Like most of my opinions and perspectives, I picked the name “only partially reasoned” for this site for a reason. My framework for immigration is fluid. Probably more so than most of my thinly considered insights. I decided to pair tonight’s State of the Union and its teasing of its more-marketing-to-the-base-than-impact immigration policy with watching […]
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Magnificent but Standard
The Post. The bar is so high for Streep and Hanks that their incredible acting feels commonplace, but compelling It lacked the drama of Watergate because it unfolded over such a short window Another reminder of the importance of an independent press and I pledge to increase my tolerance of self-righteous, condescending journalists by 10% […]
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he who hesitates
Ugh. In less than 30 minutes I was inspired to excitment and then dashed to the rocks. Tonight I walked from the LES to Union Square for an 11p Barnes & Noble run to replace “Homo Deus” that I left in a cab earlier today (significantly raising the bar for enjoying the futurist theorem). Earlier […]
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Homo Deus
Home Deus by Yuval Noah Harari. One liner: pushes on a great series of societal evolutionary tracts and influences to frame a cool discussion on how human/tech upgrades (leading to Homo Deus) might change human “purpose” and societal structure. This book was great. The trails it explored were powerful (I ignored a few side bars […]