As we are celebrating another Pride month and approaching the big Pride celebration I think back on my life as an out, proud, gay man. Let me start by saying I am not proud to be gay — any more than I am proud to be white, blue-eyed, or right-handed. …
Welcome to BankCat! I am not scared of AI. I don’t loathe it nor am I particularly upset by it’s use. There are some very real benefits of it’s use and that if we get proper legislation and guard rails around it, it can be a huge benefit to society. …
So I finally finished my new pottery site. Despite the fact I haven’t thrown a pot in two years, I have so much work that no one has ever seen I wanted to create a new site to highlight my efforts. That’s a bit of a strange thing to admit, …
I have written about billionaires before and why I think there should be wealth limits. I have written about effective altruism and inequality. Well I finally got my act together and made all of my thoughts and research into a website called No Billionaires: an Argument for Wealth Limits. Extreme …
I am not an AI hater like some people. I work with it everyday. Not only because I have to, but because it does actually make my life easier. For example, sometimes if I am having difficulties replying to an email I will use AI to help me. Often because …
Twenty years of blogging taught me one thing: showing up matters more than being perfect. Consistency isn’t about never missing a day — it’s about never permanently stopping.
You are probably familiar with the Japanese practice of Kintsugi, even if you don’t recognize the name. Kintsugi is the practice of repairing broken pottery with gold. Originally done with resin and gold powder it is an expression of wabi-sabi. Wabi-sabi is an aesthetic and philosophical concept that embraces the …
I still blog after 20 years. Which is something of a rarity these days. Blogging is the internet equivalent of the “slow food” movement. In a time when social media is pressuring people to produce short form content, and AI generated glop has permeated everything, blogging to me feels like …
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