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Don’t focus on what you want. Focus on who controls what you want.

Jim Bantliff

METRICS - They are often sloppy and always intrusive, but with AI getting better and better as well as the growing internet-of-things, I would venture to say that the numbers are headed in the direction of accuracy and can be used with reserved confidence. Even Ferris Bueller knew to start his day by covering his digital tracks. Hence, I feel that when a large portion of your data is manually entered, edited and engaged with, how can you even start to rely on its curated output? Human error is just as damaging as malicious tampering and both will always occur as long as humans are fallible and deceptive. Ignoring these truths will lead us to lazy decision making and the assigning of blame based on one’s place in the power structure. Big Brother may be watching, but it is our job to make sure he doesn’t know what he is looking at.  

The animal kingdom is in a constant state of warfare. It is a production with many, many roles and you can choose your own adventure - but mostly it’s life or death.

You keep telling yourself that.

"The moment I discover a man's a fool I let him drop, but I delight in getting into the confidence and pockets of men who think they can't be 'skinned.' It ministers to my intellectual pride."  - Bertha Heyman

For example a Venus Fly Trap needs to have two of the hairs on its leaves touched by a bug in order to shut, so it remembers that the first one has been touched. But this only lasts about 20 seconds, and then it forgets.

Possible inspiration for Brian Michael Rini to impersonate Timmothy Pitzen?

Karl E. Weick

Maybe we need a new catchy saying to move us into the next era.

I can’t believe she might have scammed the Fyre Festival guy. That’s some Dirty Rotten Scoundrels level stuff right there.

It sounds like some cases were more about faking or cheating on test scores, but the more creative methods for gaining entrance to some of America’s most prestigious schools will surely dominate the headlines. Photoshopped athletes? Elite programs giving scholarships to students who were never involved in athletics? It’s all just part of “the simple step-by-step process of creating, curating and sharing the powerful brand called YOU.”

Illustration shows President Taft skiing down a steep slope labeled "Nomination Slide 1912"; one ski is labeled "Control of Senate" and the other, which has broken its strap and come loose, is labeled "Control of House". Taft looks about to fall after losing one ski.

Since AI is going to take over and make all the decisions, we must train our minds to be more binary-tolerant. This will mean hours of crude calculations scratched into notebooks and diaries, lightening quick recall and a pleasant UI. I will aid in decisions while never hoping for anything myself. I’ll wish. Wishing is motivational and beneficial if you are the one making the decisions. Hoping is mostly internal and does not flaunt its exploits. That is costly because it spends more than it produces.