Reflection | Introspection
One piece this week. That’s it. Pensive weeks don’t hand you three ideas. They hand you one, and ask you to sit with it. So I sat with it, then went back and reread two from the archive instead of…
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One More Time
Nobody has ever needed convincing about “One More Time.” Twenty five years since Daft Punk released it and the song is still doing the same job it did the night it dropped: it takes a room full of strangers and…
El Rey del Mundo King of the World VSOP Toro (6” x 52)
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Stubbornness: the pattern everyone is missing right now.
Stubbornness keeps getting mistaken for strength. It isn’t strength. It’s the absence of thought, wearing a strength costume. Watching leaders dig in this week bothered me more than usual. Not the specifics. The pattern. Refusing to be moved by anything.…
Attendance Is the Whole Game
Show up or shut up! Read on. I have played the same D&D table every Saturday for a year and a half. I know my Druid’s numbers cold. I know when a Cleric gets back Channel Divinity, I know when…
You’re Not Kind. You’re Just Tolerant.
Tolerate What Doesn’t Have a Pulse A distinction worth making, since I wrote before that tolerance is the weak version of acceptance. That’s true for people. It’s not true for everything. You tolerate heat. You don’t need to accept it,…
Luciano The Machinist Gordo
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AI “Out-Empathized” a Human.
An AI Out-Empathized a Human. That’s Not a Compliment. I told an AI something true. It answered with more understanding than most humans manage on their best day. That should worry you. Not because the machine got smart. Because we…
LeeMack912, Hyacinth and Mark Live!
Every Sunday night, we gather for the best few hours in cigars. We’re live at 7:15 PM Eastern, and you know the drill: grab your favorite stick, reach for your cutter, and prime that torch. Don’t just watch, smoke with…
Stop Calling it Weakness.
Everything I wrote this week turned out to be about that same fork in the road, just wearing different clothes each time. Adapting isn’t the same thing as giving up. I keep seeing people treat the two like they’re the…