Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Life 3.0
Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark is part of a pairing with “Homo Deus” to force some noodling on some threads on the evolution of man. One line summary: great book for placing the advent of Artificial Intelligence into the context of human evolution and for putting some visible milestones to look for before we start […]
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Rule #23: cut your sandwich
Me and the Fellas are on a thread around defining “who we are” by the “things that we do”. We volunteered at the ADA Walk, we try hard at practice even if in the common vocabulary of a six and eight year old, it is “boooooring”, etc, etc. We just added a new rule, #23, […]
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Dee Vockell 1940-2010
She was ready to go. Dee was down with G.O.D. and was ready to go spend some time getting to know him even better. The final weeks weren’t great, and with just a couple of days until Christmas we decided to have her memorial in January. Her life of service had a magical, defining, final […]
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the heist
I don’t know why, but I have some fascination with stolen art. There’s even a series on Netflix called “Raiders of the Lost Art”. I’ve seen the remake of “The Thomas Crown Affair” a half dozen times. My top 3 “stolen and never recovered”… #3: Charing Cross Bridge, London by Monet – stolen in 2012 […]
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Really?
The Elder brought up some topic about phone staring today. I think we were out and about and he asked for my phone to look something up and I said “I don’t have it”. “Cool” he replied. I’ve told him a couple of times that I leave my phone at home, or in the car, […]
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Delicious Watergate
I can’t believe I am only just coming to this. Slate has been running a series of in-depth podcasts on the people and discrete events of Watergate and it is delicious. It’s called “Slow Burn” and it’s fascinating enough that I coughed up the $35 for the Slate Plus Membership to get double the episodes. […]
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Rule #32: keeping a secret
The Team got first round information today that one of The Elder’s best friend’s mom was expecting. We talked about the nature of this kind of announcement, how it was their story to tell more than ours, and that for a period of time it was a ‘secret’. We discussed how it was a secret […]
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Single Sex Education
I love that I went to St. X for High School. I remember December 3 every year because we had it off in observance of St. Francis Xavier’s death, and I loved days off. I am sure at this point I have 99% romanticized my time at St. Xavier High School. It got me into […]
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I’m Fat
A buck ninety-five. WTF. I have made a commitment to the Fellas that I am going to live to be 100 (they have amended the sign) and that “every pound over 170 rips a wonderful year off the end of my life.” Shit, I talk to people every day about healthy choices and I can […]
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Step 2. Crushed.
Remember on June 1st of last year when you were talking big smack about “Novo Nordisk is the world’s largest diabetes company and they just announced an open RFP to supply a digital diabetes program to their patients. I’m going to win that and start the cascade.” [Big Talk]
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