Recommendations, Peeves, and Things I Half-Believe
AI as plastic surgery, wealthy chucking, wiki-me-dia, and 11 more summer preoccupations.
⚡️ The Zag
My adventures taking on the standardizing systems that dull us down with new ones that sharpen what makes me, my kids, and maybe even you different, and get us closer to lives we wouldn't trade.
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You Gotta Be Obviously Awesome
It's obvious now what I was missing.