an AI robot may ask you what value you offer. Are you prepared to answer? I’m not.  Unless it’s interested in what it feels like to be barefoot in the grass. If it examines you in a lab to see if you contribute, do you think you’d pass? I wonder what will be the criteria. … Continue reading

It’s August 2023. I’m waiting for my receipt, at a hotel lobby in Tanegashima.   I’m closing out 5 months in Japan, pondering all the adventures I’ve had, when I realize 3 minutes have passed and she’s still folding that receipt. 3 minutes. I climb down from the clouds to see and regret only catching… Continue reading

“Does a falling tree make a sound if no one’s around to hear it?”, Camille asks as I start to shut my eyes for sleep. I perk up, always down to engage in questions about objective vs perceived reality. We go on to recite the usual arguments and then lay it to rest.  But I… Continue reading