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The djinn go back millennia, powerful and elusive creatures of the supernatural. They show up across time and culture.
Three hundred years ago, Charles Perrault retold a short story about a headstrong woodcutter and his wife. On being granted three wishes from Jupiter (archetype for the genie of legend), he accidentally blurts out that he’d like sausage for dinner. ...
In October, the apples in New England are some of the best in the world.
Alas, the apples in this bowl are nine months old and from 3000 miles away. I found them sitting in a forlorn corner of a hotel gym in Cape Cod.
Why source lousy apples? Because they’re not being hired to be good apples. Instead, they’re chosen to be convenient, reliable and a bit...
A very long rant, riffing on the opportunity for bootstrapped startups who seek to create value using AI. I wrote it a while ago, thought it was too long, but in arguing with an AI today (everyone needs a hobby) I realized it was worth sharing:
Most AI success stories to date are about cost reduction or speed improvement. A startup offers businesses a way to get mor...
Someone who has seen a lot of movies but has never made one has a certain kind of knowledge. The same is true for clients, patients and students. They haven’t solved a problem, healed a patient or taught a class, but they’ve seen it done.
They might have something helpful to add. Or they might not.
PS thanks to James Hunt for creating and maintaining <...
Imagine if your job required you to maintain an updated handoff doc, something the boss could give to a new hire that would let them immediately get caught up on the work. All the file names, locations, assumptions, choices, dilemmas and contacts, organized and ready to go.
Creating something like this would be annoying and time consuming, and eventually we’d get ve...