Reducing my cost of living to pursue my curiosities — On January 9th, I learned that I’d soon be out of a job when my employer announced its discontinuation. On that day, 70% of our team was let go. The remaining 5 employees were selected for a skeleton team with one task: wind down the brand as gracefully as possible…

After 5 years of sobriety, when my pillars of stability crumbled, all I wanted was a drink — This past year tested my sobriety unlike any before. Abstinence proved itself a professor, my pillars of stability crumbled, and I crawled through dark crevices that I had hoped to never visit again. The events that mark year 5 of my sobriety include the end of a 4-year relationship, a…

Why stablecoins are important to the future of finance — A stablecoin is a digital dollar that makes participating in the global digital economy, easy. Purists would call a stablecoin a cryptocurrency token denominated in and equal in value to a single unit of another asset. These reference assets are typically the dollar or euro but can be commodities such…

Understanding the technology powering the top AI-assisted tools — GPT-3 (short for “Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3”) is a language generation model developed by OpenAI. OpenAI is the research organization promoting and developing friendly artificial intelligence in ways most likely to benefit humanity as a whole. Or so it told me… A language generation model, like GPT-3, is a type…

Why you should steal art and how to do it in the modern world — What do Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, and T.S. Eliot all have in common? They’re thieves. Pablo Picasso famously said, “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” He wasn’t alone in this sentiment. Salvador Dali said, “Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing,” and T.S. …

A simple guide that will have you generating AI art in less than 10 minutes — AI-generated art is any art created by artificial intelligence or AI for short. This could include images, illustrations, paintings, 3D models, and more. …

A record of the quotes that helped me navigate moving, changing jobs, and the end of a 4-year relationship — 2022 destabilized me. My 4-year relationship ended, I moved 1,400 miles north, and risked my career choosing the possibility of over comfort. And here, in its final days, still I stand. Sobriety and therapy equipped me with the tools to navigate these events with grace, friendships provided shoulders and support…

What I learned from stepping on a bug and breaking its leg — I was walking along the river when I heard what sounded like an animal in distress. It was a high-pitched rhythmic noise. I couldn’t place where it was coming from. The water was flat, the sidewalk empty, and not even the wind was enough to shake the branches. Then I…

The cast of a city rehearses early on the empty streets of a Sunday morning. — The cast of a city rehearses early on the empty streets of a Sunday morning. A group of women walks three wide on an already narrow sidewalk. Their locked arms link three generations, the eldest in the middle. They have the same conversations they’ve had for decades, yet each week…