Category: Work & Web
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So in my continuing experiments with artificial intelligence, I decided to ask Claude, the chatbot created by AI startup Anthropic, to help me with some holiday gift-giving, specifically for my wife. I highlighted some of her interests, including her newfound love for pickleball as well as her longtime love – reading. Claude offered up that…
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Like so many other writers/editors, I’ve been playing with ChatGPT. Generally, as I’ve asked it to do very purposeful tasks, I’ve found it to be capable, lacking insight, and vulnerable to enormous gaps of understanding. My advice is, Use it … very, very carefully. So this morning, I brought in some of the fall harvest…
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Like a lot of people, I played Wordle a lot this past year (see below). It’s ingenious, both simple and complex in the way that can remain intriguing over time. Six guesses to come up with a five-letter word sounds simultaneously super-difficult and pretty easy. Six seems like a lot, until you’re looking at S-A-E on…
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I am very, very curious what things are going to look like on the other side of this.
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I purchased an iPhone 11 earlier this summer to replace my Pixel 3a. I am not satisfied. Here’s why would I return to my Pixel 3a: • The size. The Pixel 3a is smaller and, honestly, just the perfect size for a phone. The iPhone 11, which is the old XR, is just plain large.…
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First off, an announcement: I’ve changed jobs — again. I started today at Universal Health Services as Director of Content and Publications. The job is good, plus I get to ditch the Philly wage tax (saving 3.5%) and the hour-and-a-half commute for one that’s less than 30 minutes (and as little as 15 on a…
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(Editor’s note: My second newsletter, send on Feb. 2, 2019.) Welcome back! Hoping wherever you are, that you are safe and warm. What I’m Reading As a high school senior, my younger son Kelly started to suffer increasingly violent migraine headaches, first in conjunction with the ulcerative colitis that was diagnosed a decade ago, then…
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(Editor’s note: this is the text from my first newsletter, sent on Jan. 28, 2019.) Thanks for signing up to receive this newsletter. As I’ve become more uncomfortable about Facebook, and more guarded about whose stories I share and where I share them, I’ve thought about how to communicate with others without feeding the algorithmic…
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I’ve been equivocal about Facebook for a while now, and the news of the last week has me re-considering even my reduced activity on the world’s largest social network. What’s surprising to me is that a lot of other people apparently are too. Social networks are notoriously fragile—remember MySpace? Friendster?—but Facebook was thought to be…
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The announcement that Facebook would be turning its back on news organizations made me a bit nostalgic. I remembered, as managing editor for MensHealth.com, being the person who set up our Facebook page. We didn’t have social media editors then. We barely had “social media.” I haven’t looked back to what year exactly it was,…
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I’m always curious how others use their phones and what they value enough to have it available on the home screen. With that in mind, I’ll show you mine, along with some brief explanation. I’m curious to see yours. I have an iPhone 7 Plus. The top row is about 3 miles from the bottom of…
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A lot of people I knew were aware that Rodale was being acquired by Hearst and were curious how I’d be impacted. Short version, I’ll be departing, with an end date of March 10. I wasn’t alone—more than one-third of the company’s employees received similar news, and that had the effect of muting a lot of…
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