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My son is turning six today. Lately I’ve been thinking about how becoming a father has changed me, and the things I have learned by taking care of my son. Here are, in no particular order, some insights and reflections that these six years have brought me.

Noticing ChildrenYoung children are, due to their size, easy to overlook – quite literally. Ho...

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The Suit

I work in the linguistics department at Stellar Dynamics. My job is to analyze conversations between our personal AI assistant MIRA and our clients, and flag any inappropriate responses from the AI. The end goal is to create better training data so we can eliminate those behaviors. As you can imagine I read a lot of strange, sometimes even disturbing, things in my work; most ...

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I’m walking in nearly complete darkness, only able to navigate thanks to my head lamp. As I come around a bend in the road, there’s a gap in line of trees along the right hand side, their black silhouettes dropping away to reveal the view. This is what I had been hoping to find when I ventured out of camp, so stop and turn off the light. In front of me lies the valley, almost...

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I’m sitting here in our little campsite just taking in my surroundings.  The evening chill is just starting to set in, not too hot and not yet cold. Next to me, my wife is reading under the light. A few meters away, our son is snoring in the tent. If I face away from illuminated circle of the campsite – in any direction – I see nothing but black; it’s like a solid wall o...

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Medium Adventures

A while back I wrote about going on what I called Tiny Adventures. In the last couple of years, I’ve reduced the frequency of these excursions, opting instead to turn them into proper hikes; although I would hesitate to call th...

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