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Two thoughts after reading this piece: 1) our degrading reasoning skills probably played a big role in the last Presidential Election and 2) in an age of advancing technology and rapid change, thinking and reasoning are paramount - and the US is probably screwed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...
Opinion | The Stupidity of the Tariffs Are the Achievement of a Lifetime
Maybe we’re just not good at thinking anymore.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Two thoughts after reading this piece: 1) our degrading reasoning skills probably played a big role in the last Presidential Election and 2) in an age of advancing technology and rapid change, thinking and reasoning are paramount - and the US is probably screwed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/o...
Just came across this quote from Geoff Dyer, a favorite writer of mine: "I am always on the edge of what I am doing. I do everything badly, sloppily, to get it over with so that I can get on to the next thing that I will do badly and sloppily..." As the saying goes, I resemble that remark...
March 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Just came across this quote from Geoff Dyer, a favorite writer of mine: "I am always on the edge of what I am doing. I do everything badly, sloppily, to get it over with so that I can get on to the next thing that I will do badly and sloppily..." As the saying goes, I resemble that remark...
New travel blog post about recent trip to Portugal: vijayfrance2024.wordpress.com/2025/02/28/r...
Roman Holiday, Part I: Portugal
Jennifer just started a class in Paris that will be keeping her busy for most of the next five months, and my schedule in Paris is suddenly quite a bit more active (more on this in my next blog pos…
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February 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
New travel blog post about recent trip to Portugal: vijayfrance2024.wordpress.com/2025/02/28/r...
Greetings from Florence. "We have a room with a view"
February 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Greetings from Florence. "We have a room with a view"
New travel blog post: vijayfrance2024.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/a...
A Moveable (AI) Feast
I sometimes fancy myself as living out my own version of A Moveable Feast, Hemingway’s lovely (and controversial) memoir of his salad days in Paris roughly 100 years ago. Indeed, just last we…
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February 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
New travel blog post: vijayfrance2024.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/a...
Wondering if anybody I know has used Notebook LM or something similar?
January 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Wondering if anybody I know has used Notebook LM or something similar?
Just happened to come across this article from 2012 www.newyorker.com/magazine/201.... Perhaps I liked it better when the Silicon Valley elites were largely oblivious to politics...
Change the World
Silicon Valley transfers its slogans—and its money—to the realm of politics.
www.newyorker.com
January 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Just happened to come across this article from 2012 www.newyorker.com/magazine/201.... Perhaps I liked it better when the Silicon Valley elites were largely oblivious to politics...