The better way isn’t the easier one; it’s whichever one leads to greater fulfillment. Even if it includes freezing nights, Grandma’s guilt trips, and a gold 1970 Chevy Nova on a winding West Virginia country road.
Tag: storytelling
Sometimes the Scar Is Worth It
My earliest memory involves a soccer field, a broken beer bottle, and a choice that left a mark—a scar that still reminds me of my father.
When In Doubt, Sing Out
I learned a crucial lesson about kindness and compassion while Christmas caroling in a nursing home in 1983.
Why ChatGPT Cheats at Chess—And Why that May Be Super Important for the Future of AI
ChatGPT can discuss chess brilliantly but routinely makes illegal moves during actual gameplay. AI researcher Gary Marcus argues this isn’t a quirk—it reveals that large language models lack “world models,” the internal representations of reality that humans use to understand how things work. This limitation may be fundamental to current AI architectures, with significant implications for how we should think about and use these powerful but imperfect tools.
Our Era Is Not “Post-Truth,” It’s “Loyalty-First”
In the history of truth, questions of loyalty came before questions of accuracy. In our current cultural moment, questions of loyalty seem to be ascending again, with some potentially dire consequences.
7 Basic Plots and How to Use Them
Stories are ubiquitous in human life, from the time we begin to make sense of the world to our final sentences. So learning how to tell them--and why--is essential.
From Luke Skywalker to Barney Busrider to … ?
Reflections on the characters I’ve been, and the one I’m still becoming.
Someday You’ll See Things Differently
No matter how well you know a thing now, it will likely look different to you someday, after your next existential transition.
The Story of the Star Wars Storybook
A long time ago, in a make-believe galaxy not far away, I pretended to be Luke Skywalker. Here's how that turned out.
Why Words Matter
There's a very real sense in which words have conjured the world as we know it. Which is why we should treat them with care.
