The energy and attention required to cooperate is fundamentally different — usually, at odds — with the energy and attention it takes to dominate. This is why overtly domineering leadership […]
Poetry - Song Lyrics
The country of unfinished dreams
In the country of unfinished dreams there’s one that still skips like a wreck there’s one that still skips like a record you left in the sun. In the country […]
Journal
The magic of meaninglessness
There’s an intriguing quote attributed to Giovanni Pico della Mirandola related in a review of the new book The Grammar of Angels: “Voices that mean nothing have more magical power […]
Article - Journal
Le Guin’s notes on fantasy tropes
I’m grappling with how to avoid formulaic fantasy tropes in my fiction writing. I lean into a nuanced character-centered novel with depth, set in a fantasy milieu, vs. a violent […]
Journal
Fantasy challenges
As I’m working on some fantasy fiction, a friend asked what was the most challenging part. I said: trying to balance buoyant imagination and believable realism. But maybe there is […]
Article
Undying Greek Poets, hallucination, and ChatGPT
While the success of the internet as a global town square is dubious at best with its pervasive misinformation and polarization, one area in which it is unquestionably beneficial is […]
Essay
Towards Artificial Wisdom
What would Artificial Wisdom look like? We have myriad technologies which are grouped under the umbrella term Artificial Intelligence. Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Generative Computing, etc. — these are systems […]
Poetry
Nekrosestina
Leaves of gold and red make the announcement. We’ve been sleeping, trusting life’s green driver. Now we see: soil’s rich and grave appeal draws us down and grants eternal access […]
Journal - Meditation
A Meditation for Election Day
I visualize and affirm the triumph of Wisdom, of Love, of Democracy over lesser impulses and coarser currents in my country.