With apologies for the late notice! I get to talk with Tish Harrison Warren about her beautiful new book, WHAT GROWS IN WEARY LANDS, today at 1pm EDT. You can join for the Zoom seminar here: eventbrite.com/e/what-grows-…

I love Catholic Social Doctrine and am glad to see its core principles reiterated — but in the end MH feels too indebted to existing frameworks to really address the res novae of our time. Yuval's piece gets much closer to the heart of the matter.

By far the best thing I've read on the encyclical. thenewatlantis.com/publicati…

I expect (vs predict) that there will be a 9/11-level event (causing grievous harm to >thousands of people) that will change the direction of AI policy in ways that are genuinely unforeseeable right now. Biosecurity is a strong candidate for the vector, though there are others.

I don't even use spell check, and never use AI in personal correspondence, or for that matter any writing that will see the light of day in any form (I use it for lots of other things). But soon enough we are just going to assume that everything is a bot. Sigh.

He accidentally replies to me instead of his business partner, speculating that my email may be an "AI-generated template email response." This dynamic is going to be the death of all remaining trust on the Internet.

I get an out-of-the blue email from someone wanting to connect. Seems like a nice guy but man, it sure reads like AI at least co-wrote it. In any case, these days I have to decline most such requests (to my frustration). I write back, personally, saying so as kindly as I can.

The ISO 216 standard for paper sizes is so beautiful. That is all.

It is SO fascinating that one of the most popular podcasts ever, ACQUIRED, completely changed their focus, from their original title to stories of enduring, often multigenerational brands. Impact (Force / Time) is way overrated. Influence (force ^ time) is so much better.