Month: November 2024
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13 Attitudes From “Meditations For Mortals”
13 attitudes from, yep, you guessed it, ChatGPT, based on the notes I took from Oliver Burkeman’s wonderful book “Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts.” Short Guide Based on Your Notes: Finding Purpose in Midlife
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Quit Quitting
This will be the fourth time I attempt to quit smoking. The first time I quit was when I was with one of my ex-girlfriends. I managed to stop for about three weeks but picked it back up after we had a fight. The second time was with another ex-girlfriend. I stopped for maybe a…
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Don’t Ever Skip “People I (Mostly) Admire”
I love his show, “People I (Mostly) Admire,” and I keep forgetting that I should never skip an episode. For example, this latest interview with Pete Docter, Chief Creative Director of Pixar and the Academy Award-winning director of Soul, Inside Out, Up, and Monsters, Inc., was great, but I almost skipped it. The title of the episode, “What If…
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Protected: Justice & Ego
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I Executed a Re-org
Yesterday, we executed a re-org. I let 6 people go. This is the 5th re-org/mass layoff I have been involved in- Accenture in 2001, Cyberware in 2002, Nike “category offense” in 2009, Apple “incident” in 2012. Phew. Everything started 2 days ago. All of a sudden, it became real. The names I had previously provided…
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Election 2024
I never thought this was possible, but it happened. I also thought, along many others, that Trump was done when he lost to Biden in 2020. But he’s made a historic comeback and completely destroyed his competition, Kamala Harris. Along the way, many crazy things happened and I ought to record those that shook me:…
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Acceptance
There is wisdom in knowing where you are, staying there, using what you have, doing what you can, and be okay with that.
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ChatGPT = 🛟
I wrote the below in 20 minutes, entirely with ChatGPT. I did in on a whim. It was something I felt I needed as I was struggling through the aftermath of an episode with my family. I was very depressed and stuck. The Circle of The Grind Last night, I went to an event organized…