The Whole Year Inn

  Letter to Taylor I know you. I know that you feel like nobody in the world understands you or loves you. You are wrong. I know you and I know the way it feels to not believe that you have a reason to value the life you have or the decisions you make throughout the day. I know you have already been in some trouble, but believe there are consequences to choices you are making every day that reach far into the future you may not even be able to conceive of. There is value in your experiences and you have a story ahead of you that will be worth telling. But you don’t understand the merit and the importance of thinking about where the trail you choose to walk on is going to lead. You are arrogant. You can have a healthy distrust of authority but don’t fall into the trap of ignorance baited with contempt prior to investigation. Be sure that the people you follow are worth learning from and modeling yourself after. Make sure that they have authenticity and do things in the world t...

  It seems crazy to me how much the world has changed since I was last paying attention. I’m almost afraid to blink after noticing how much the speed of things has picked up since I’ve been napping. I open my eyes and I feel like I’m in some caricature world with jokes filling in the spaces of what used to be boring or misunderstood aspects of my reality like who is filling the seats of power in our world, or what the role of technology is currently. I recently was given an offer of a job doing some of the mundane nudging and finessing of the large language model outputs for Chat GPT. I guess I should try to do my part if there is anything I can do to help shape the evolution of the species that is to replace our role as the apex predator on top of the pecking order here on earth. I don’t really know how I feel about artificial intelligence. Does anyone else feel like it is being pushed on us pretty strong? I don’t like how strong the injection is into the technological water in ...