Category: Real life stories / anecdotes
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AI wish you hadn’t done that
I’ll be honest, part of the reason I haven’t been posting is because of the explosion of generative AI discourse. When the writing you create goes from “maybe” being scraped, digested and churned badly into free, unattributed content to “guaranteed”, the futility monster moves in and sets up house. It’s…
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Event post-mortem: the meetup that wasn’t
Also known as: the Saturday in which I ignore everything that I’ve written in this blog and try to force myself to do exactly the wrong thing and then feel bad about it…for the 8,000th time. For your entertainment, I have put my my behavioral missteps and thought errors in…
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How to host a party when you’re bad at it
Birthdays are complicated for me. In general, I don’t like sustained attention. It makes me want to go crawl in one of those caves in France where they age fancy cheeses and never come out. But, you get me around my birthday and suddenly I want attention. This confidence magically…
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001 – How to make friends when you’re bad at it – Rob might be too nice?
I recorded a podcast! My first! And now it’s here. I’ve invited my friend Rob to talk about friends, curmudgeons, how people who leave events early are heroes, and knockabout friends. Stick around as we stumble upon some surprisingly successful metaphors. Questions include: This is something I am doing on…
The Friend Manual: How to make friends when you're bad at it 