The simple test: when you do it more, do things get better?
This is a simple test for almost everything, not just social media.
Old tools are the best tools…
The old protect the young, then the young protect the old. This is the way.
— The Mandalorian and Grogu
You might remember that Patrick’s words for 2026 were “Adjust and Adapt” and mine is “Resilience.” So here was a great chance to put this into practice.
Sometimes, your cabin plans are not what your cabin has planned.
Before the show…
A Productive Conversation | Making Space for Grace (PM Talks S3E5)
Patrick Rhone is back, and so is PM Talks — the monthly series where Patrick and I take our time with one idea and actually see where it goes. This is Season 3, Episode 5, and Patrick has just returned from a trip to Greece with his family — a trip built around anniversary celebrations, Mamma Mia filming locations, and the kind of serendipitous moments that only happen when you’re open enough to notice them.
Always a good time.
Thoughts About AI and The Known Unknowns
A subject that my mind has been unreasonably fascinated (dare I say fixated) on recently is this; no one really knows why we yawn. There are theories, of course — from one’s blood containing increased amounts of carbon dioxide in need of release to a body’s way of controlling brain temperature. Especially elusive is why it seems to be contagious. There are many theories but no definitive answer.
Something as common and basic as yawning is a mystery and I love this. I love such known unknowns. It seems like there should be a simple explanation for such a common benign thing , and yet it alludes even the minds of science.
This is true of many things, especially when it comes to the brain and human behavior. We know more about the far reaches of the universe than we do the depths of our own mind. This gives me a great comfort. I can’t really explain why. The best explanation is it makes me feel human.
Which leads me to wonder about the limits of artificial intelligence…
Because, as far as I understand it, it can only ever know what we know. Perhaps it can take all the disparate pieces of our knowledge and see connections and come up with new ideas and solutions based on these that we humans would be otherwise limited to. But, those limits of human knowledge correspondingly are the limits of AI. AI may be able to beat us in collective capacity and perhaps even speed of understanding, but its knowledge, or lack there of, is ours.
AI can’t tell me, definitively, scientifically proven and agreed upon, why we yawn. And it won’t be able to until we humans can begin to answer that question ourselves. Until we take all of the theories, do all of the testing, run it through scientific methods, and be able to say, with an overwhelming level of certainty, “We yawn because…”
So, this puny human will continue to obsess over and be delighted by the mysteries of our amazing brain and rest in the comfort that AI doesn’t know any more than we do.
How to Spend Money So It Actually Makes You Happier – YouTube
This video by Daniel Pink is interesting and useful. Everything within backed by scientific research. My own personal experience, where applied, backs it up. Worth the time to watch. Things that make you go, “Hmmm…”
Geography is four-dimensional | Derek Sivers
When someone speaks of a place, you have to ask, “When?” Geography is four-dimensional. You can’t know a place – only a place as it was at a time. Where is bound to when.
Interesting insight. Derek nails it (yet again).
An interesting idea; start your work surface with nothing:
The next time you begin your workday, try this: clear your work surface completely. Close all browser tabs. Create a fresh page in your notebook. Open only the one file you need.