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On the Train to Auschwitz
Electricity is shooting from my fingertips. My heart is racing. My breathing fast, too fast. “I can’t understand your accent. I’d like to talk with a supervisor, NOW!” My fifth ask. I’m on the phone with COMCAST, have been for the last 2 hrs today; 3 hrs on Tuesday, 2 more last Friday…etc. “I sody mem for…
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What Religion Are You?
When I say I’m an atheist, the very next question most people ask is: “Well, what were you raised? What were your parents?” Human beings. Somehow that answer isn’t good enough. They’re looking to place me in a spiritual box and lock me into a religion and all the stereotypes that go along with it.…
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[Spider’s] Web 1.0
I’ll never forget the first time I saw the World Wide Web. It was 1995. I was in my rented townhome in Alameda, a small island on the east bank of the San Francisco Bay. I already had a dial-up modem plugged into my Mac LC that I used to send graphic files and documents to…
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The Fatal Flaw with AI
Saw #60Minutes last night with Google’s CEO #SundarPichai on the current state of #AI. The opening bar, the interviewer, #ScottPelley, asked #SissieHsiao, Google’s VP, what Google’s new chatbot, #Bard, is for. “It’s really here to help you brainstorm ideas to generate content like a speech or a blog post or an email,” she said with…
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The Good Life
To escape the bickering, and whining, and catering to the needs and desires of everyone’s demands, I took our dog, Annie, for a walk on a quiet fire trail near our house. Bright and beautiful out, a sweet sea breeze came over the Oakland Hills with the afternoon sun. The mile and a half dirt…
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Storytelling is Truth Tweaked
Way before writing novels, I was a storyteller. Before I could write, I used to come to breakfast and recount tales of elaborate adventures I’d had during the night with my stuffed dog, Checkers. The purpose was to garner my mother’s attention, a precious commodity given mainly to my manic-depressive brother and egocentric sister. The…
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IDEA to PRODUCT for PROFIT Webinar
Eventbright Webinar: https://lnkd.in/gETT2C_S Have a biz IDEA you think will SELL? PROVE IT…BEFORE YOU BUILD IT, with the Productization process. Over 500,000 startups launch in the U.S. annually. More than 90% fail from bad to no marketing. Marketing is NOT advertising! Marketing any product or service BEGINS (or should) in product development of the IDEA. Running ads through Google or…
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The Character of Places
I was 19 the first time I remember it happening. I was driving north from L.A. to Seattle, and it hit me like running into a brick wall when I saw the Welcome to Oregon sign— something was wrong with the place. Not wrong, exactly. But not what I thought it would be since I’d never…
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The Future Out of Time
I was 9 years old the first time I saw the future before it happened. Dad and I were up on the flying bridge of our 30-foot cabin cruiser doing the crossing from Long Beach to Catalina Island. I sat on the padded bench on top of the boat that warm fall evening, marveling at…
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