This winter I transited from working alone on a big project to searching for new employment. In the process I found myself taking a lot of words in, and here is a salad bowl of pieces I discovered or rediscovered: Kevin Kelly (2026): How Will the Miracle Happen Today? But the strangeness of “kindees” is harder to explain. A kindee is what you turn into when you are kinded. Curiously, being a kindee is an unpracticed virtue. Hardly anyone hitchhikes any more, which is a shame because it encourages the habit of generosity from drivers, and it nurtures the grace of gratitude and patience of being kinded from hikers. But the stance of receiving a gift – of being kinded — is important for everyone, not just travelers. Joscha Bach (2024): Self Models of Loving Grace. “Artificial Intelligence is not just an engineering discipline, but also the most fascinating and important philosophical project ever attempted: the explanation of the mind, by recreating it.” A soft, thought-provoking…
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