Linda and I spent the last week in an all-inclusive resort in Yucatan. We were with a group of very good friends, tagging along with a larger high school reunion group. It was a first for us, and we were interested to see if we’d like it. Putting aside the fact that sometimes it seemed…
Month: November 2023
Politics, Social Commentary
THEY Are Not Taking Over…Yet
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A brief commercial moment; my latest novel, “Too Clever by a Zettabyte” (just published on Amazon) is subtitled “Can THEY really take over?” And the answer in the book is, “Not if we don’t let them.” I once heard a wise person tell an artist, “Your job will not be taken by an artificial intelligence.…
Social Commentary
Critical Thinking and White Ford Pickups
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One of the techniques of critical thinking is to recognize the dangers of subjective data collection. This is prevalent in all of us, because collecting data is skewed by the other natural functions of the human brain. In other words, if you aren’t aware of your own biases, you won’t collect data evenly. A Survival…
Politics, Social Commentary
Arab-Israeli War Spills into Canada
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A war is a difficult time to live through. Goes without question. But when there are so many “small” wars going on around the globe, it’s tempting for those of us whose experience of conflict is restricted to our media to follow the latest news flash and ignore the rest. But due to the spread…