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I’m “every time your favorite music acts from your teen and college years come to town you buy the ticket because they’re all 10-20 years older than you and it very well could be your last chance” years old.

Very excited to see Sting tonight. I’ve seen The Police every time they toured the US and Sting almost every time he’s toured solo. Excited to add one more to the list. We’re all getting older and I don’t know how many more chances I’ll get.

When A.I. Comes for Your Purpose in Life – The New York Times

Steven Strogatz, a professor of mathematics at Cornell University, describes the excitement and grief of watching A.I. take on work that gives people a sense of purpose — and asks what could be lost if machines deliver answers without the human struggle, insight and understanding that make solving problems meaningful.

This was fascinating and, dare I say, beautiful. If you have any interest at all in the current conversation around A.I. this is a must listen.

Look, I believe if the title of your book begins “The Pocket Guide to…”, it better be a similar size and volume of pages as a Field Notes notebook. Otherwise, what are we even doing here?

I turn 59 years old today, which marks the end of my 59th year since birth.

Wait, what? you say?

Well, the way we count human years, a birthday marks the end of a year, not the beginning. Age 1, for instance, means you were born a year ago.

Yep, how we count the years is strange.

On to year 60!