• Midstream Musings – we scale ourselves and return Sisyphus …
- I like the use of the word alignment in this article for bridging meaning & purpose via storytelling. But, without compassion & insight, might such reframing & narrative produce dark purpose? – e.g., vindictiveness [1]. • Psychology Today > “The Story You Tell Yourself” by Jordan Grumet M.D., The Regret-Free […]
- the gods need not take our sight … [updated 5-19-2025] we scale ourselves … in moving from low to high,we see our pathway as true,and that we are in the right.yet forever left nearby,as if they are out of view,still the shadows of the night whether heaven or havenwill ever […]
- If the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland (the 1951 Disney film) used a smartphone, would his passing by a curious Alice have been less panicky? Are you a multi-tasker? Over the years, real-time task juggling has been praised. Multi-tasking on our digital devices has become the model for all […]
- [Draft 3-21-2025 – teaser] Owl & rabbit – a 21st century fable (a matter of fidelity) Part 1 For a village with little complaint, the night was sprinkled with screams. Those nights. These were not timbres of terror. These were shouts at someone, shrieks about one’s situation. The unrest reached […]
- [Draft 3-24-2025] Pay attention! You’re at a cocktail party … or maybe in a social setting with your family … your attention is selective – like moving a spotlight around a stage, or tuning between foreground & background channels. Did you notice the person dressed in a gorilla costume walk […]
- This Wired interview – with the author of Nexus [2024] – explores the future of coexisting with AIs. I found this theme particularly interesting: the role of storytelling in human evolution. • Wired > The Big Interview (video) > "Yuval Noah Harari Sees the Future of Humanity, AI, and Information" […]
- Peddling AI faces a legacy of Hollywood dystopian dramas. Not something which favors AI companies facing regulation or litigation – when AI goes bad. So, the charm campaign has begun, as noted in this article (below) – to shift perceptions in popular culture. Tales of sharing our agency … "don't […]
- One perspective on this fable is that the crow stayed rooted in trickle down moral obligation. The belief that moral attachment abates by ranked kinship circles. By increasing distance between neighborhoods. The fox learned that being a neighbor meant aligning widely with others. Unlike the crow, he saw kinship as […]
- Two articles with a similar theme of "human agency in an age of synthetic fluency." What are the implications of blending our agency with AIs? Is this a negotiation in which there's mutuality? Some shared alignment. Or is it wishful thinking, as this article suggests, because "there is no one […]
- Re Figure-1's thread of "Hijacked Work Ethic + Techno Optimism" (sacralization of work & 'progress'), this article (below) describes: A high-profile network of investors and founders in Silicon Valley [who] are promoting a new moral vision for the tech industry, in which job choices and other decisions are guided not […]