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My Themes for 2023
As has been my practice for the past 14 years (see list), my first post of 2023 across all my sites is of three words that are my aspirations or “themes” for the year ahead. They are not “resolutions”...
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With so many "Dan Yorks", ChatGPT's interview questions are very generic
After Simon Willison wrote about how accurate questions from ChatGPT were when he asked “I am interviewing Simon Willison. What are some good questions I can ask them?”, I had to give it a try. Simon’s...
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Capturing My Own Memories Of The Internet's History (and Pre-History)
Last month I boosted a post on Mastodon where an early pioneer of networking relayed an amusing story about shutting down part of the ARPANET during a storm. After I did that, I was asked“@danyork Do...
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The Awesome Clarity of Prioritizing Health
There is an awesome clarity that comes when you have very clear priorities - and in my case one of those is my health. As I alluded to in my three words for 2023, I’ve had a couple of recent minor...
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Listening to Hear Versus Listening to Fix
In the last six months or so, I have had an unpleasant revelation about myself. I realized that for most of my 55 years of life whenever I’ve been listening to people, I’ve been listening to offer...
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The Single Biggest Thing Preventing Me From Doing More Writing Is...
As I’ve frequently lamented in my yearly themes (although notthis year), I would like to get myself to write more. And back on December 1, 2022, I tried to commit to #100DaysOfBlogging, but that hasn't...
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Waking Up at Times Beginning With A "4"
For most of 50 years, I held very firm to the belief that the ONLY time I should ever see a time beginning with a “4” in the morning was when I needed to get up and go to the airport to catch an early...
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Three Years Ago Today, Vermont Shut Down Due to COVID-19
Today I was wondering why “March 13” was pulling at the back of my brain as a date of some importance… and then I realized why.Three years ago today, everything changed.It was on Friday, March 13,...
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After Almost 15 Years, Saying Goodbye to Evernote (and Moving to Obsidian)
On April 8, 2008, I started using Evernote as a place to store all my various notes. It would come to be a critical part of my daily workflow… so much so that I became a paying customer back in 2011 or...
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Do AI Systems Lie, Hallucinate, or Confabulate? (I’ll go for “lying”)
When ChatGPT and similar systems started being available, people noticed right away that they could provide completely wrong answers. But they would do so in language that was so confident and...
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