My latest posts

  • Fox and the ants – a 21st century fable
    Fox & the ants (interdependency) It was a lean season in the valley. Even an abandoned scarecrow had been stripped of its straw, ripped to rags moving in a dry breeze. Faceless. A solitary, scrawny fox had slowly descended into […]
  • Freemium 2.0 (ambrosia) – a 21st century fable
    Pondering the 21st century freemium 2.0 landscape … Terms of the Tree (resistance is futile) imagine … A splendid mythological garden … light glints marvelously from the surface of a tranquil creek nearby … on a mild rise, a magnificent […]
  • Ditbit’s Guide to Blending in with AIs
    I’ve had some long conversations with an aspiring screenwriter about a collection of short stories, with a working title of The Ditbit’s Guide to Blending in with AIs. An evolving landscape: The great realignment of humans and AIs left a […]
  • Sour grapes – blame-shifting folklore
    This article (below) is an interesting take on a classic fable, one of Aesop’s. Like the fable The Ant and the Grasshopper, The Fox & the Grapes [1] is part of the moral fabric of the American psyche (and elsewhere). […]
  • ‘Brain rot’ – word of the year 2024
    My personal word of the year is demonize. But … A commentary on how “we are using our free time” … an ongoing “cultural conversation about humanity and technology.” • AP News > “How to sum up 2024? The Oxford […]
  • Our longest saga – the evolution of humanity
    Pondering the big picture, what has changed in the last 100 years or so … This article (republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license) is a useful recap of our understanding of human evolution, and an excellent visualization […]
  • Puritan praise & pride – a legacy of conflated piety
    [Draft 11-7-2024] We supposedly live in a secular society. And yet, sacred speech dominates our polarized politics. The righteous mind is alive and well. Private & public piety pervades our identities, our virtues and values. Dogma still divides. History has […]
  • Healthy foods, exercises & habits page
    This blog’s Health & Exercise page has been reorganized. There now are separate sections (headings) for articles:
  • ‘Politics is about sacredness’ – overlapping moral orbits
    Fables were part of the moral fabric when I was growing up. Perhaps yours as well. Especially some of Aesop’s Fables. (Yet, I was suprised that this was not the case for many of my middle school students, when a […]
  • Happiness pension plan – a pillared formula?
    This article (below) discusses happiness as a direction, and the elements of that state of mind. And, yes, there’s a science of happiness. And a “happiness pension plan.” Yet, in such direction, recall our mantra: What’s the good news about […]