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Tilting at windmills

In Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote believed the windmills were monstrous enemies threatening the land....

Surviving in an AI age

My girlfriend and I are in the process of buying a house just north of San Francisco. Over...

The gift of fear

For many years now, I’ve repeated a phrase to myself: “Fear is my north star.” Fear is often...

AI inflection point

Last week, I hit an inflection point – a shift in perspective that altered how I see AI,...

Rabbit holes, and why they matter

Three weeks ago, my girlfriend and I were looking at rentals just south of San Francisco. Over the...

What to do with overwhelm

Over the last four months, I’ve dealt with a death in the family, a friend’s mental health crisis,...

The identities we hold

I was at dinner with my parents and my girlfriend last weekend. For some reason, Robin’s Cafe came...

How to design for change

In 2015, the authors of Responsive Org wrote that “the future is becoming increasingly difficult to predict.” Today,...

The lie of mise-en-place

I love the phrase “mise-en-place,” which is common to professional kitchens and translates to “everything in its place”....

How I’m surviving the next four years

SNAFU is an acronym for Situation Normal: All Fucked Up. The phrase was born out of the chaos...

How to train a puppy

A friend of mine just got an 8-week puppy! I’ve raised two dogs from puppyhood, and helped a...

How to buy a (used) car

I have two friends looking to buy used cars right now, and over the last fifteen years I...