There is little doubt that Artificial Intelligence is something that is interacting with many people’s lives these days. Of course, like most ‘new’ technologies how it works and, to a certain extent, what it does is a mystery to the vast majority of the population.
George McConnell
More Than Just Maintaining Friendships
Over the last few weeks a number of interactions with other people have triggered a number of things that resulted in me coming back to a subject that I have explored in many posts within this blog under the Friends tag. It has also widened my view of this subject thereby proving the truth in the tagline from Albert Einstein that appears in this blog.
Some Ramblings About a Social Media Ban
Something which a little while ago got me thinking – to the extent that I felt that I needed to blog about it – was the decision to ban young people from social media following an example in Australia. Now, my thoughts were not strictly along the lines of is this a good idea or not – rather the announcement triggered a lot of related things.
Finding Food for Thought
It was a surprise for me when I went looking that the source of inspiration for this post had only been used once. I had expected it to be more as it is a rich source of things – wise things – that people have written over the years. It does make it into my Trough of places that inspire me in one way or another. However only in A Thought Provoking Essay have I actually mentioned it before.
Never Wrong
In the last couple of weeks there have been a number of things that have prompted the “make a blog post” idea to come to mind, but up to now I haven’t managed to follow through on that – so it is time to rectify that omission.
The End of the Beginning
On a Missed Last Time
It is almost certainly simply a symptom of advancing years and the fact that everyone you know is also suffering from that particular aspect of life. It is inevitable that for those who have managed to get this far there are more years in our past than in our future – and therefore plenty of things that we will never do or encounter again. When I posted This Could Be The Last Time… there was a certain irony in thinking that there would be further times which “could be the last time” 😂
Is That How to Measure Intelligence
Now it is certainly not the first time that I have highlighted the Dunning-Kruger effect within these posts – which isn’t a surprise since the whole aim of anything written is primarily to learn – and perhaps hopefully manage to write something a little enlightening for someone else to read.
A Timely Commencement Speech
If you can spare just under ten minutes to listen to this then I would urge you to do so. This young man’s commencement speech is both timely and timeless. It speaks to the particular problems we have in the world at present, but also is showing how it is nothing new and there are lessons to be learned from the past (as always).