HeyJaredDaphne Discloses
Messy, honest, and unmistakably Gen X—my stories and real conversations about coming of age, coming undone, and becoming.
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Soon, AI will be just another thing (opens the original)
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This is the fourth and final post in my AI summer series. You can find past articles about AI here. This post probably should be three. But I really wanted to save next post #100 for something special. I’m excited to move on to other topics here and shift my AI focus to my work in pharmacy and medical writing. But I plan to talk about AI everywhere I go. Writing about AI has given me the confidence to ask more questions and start critically needed conversations in my circles and I’m hoping to in
So long Information Age (opens the original)
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You can find past articles about AI here.This past year, I’ve been asking nearly everyone I talk to about their take on using AI. Are they opting in, opting out, or just using it cause it’s there? What about at school or work? Is it an option, built into the workflow, or do they even know? What worries do they have?Survey stats on usage tell one story—it’s a straight-up trajectory. But people I ask are all over the place. There are so many angles to write about, each numerous and true to varying
Don’t Blame the User: Where AI Accountability Really Belongs (opens the original)
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You can find other articles about AI here.I’m not a tech person. I don’t replace old with new just because. I don’t think faster or more is automatically better. I value life over machinery, people over things. So my natural impulse is to be repulsed by anything AI.If AI had come out during earlier times in my life, I probably would’ve bubbled myself away from it. That’s okay. People should do what they need to do, either way. I give grace to everyone and want to focus on the decision-makers who
Thunderstruck (opens the original)
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Still feeling the thunder in my beating heart from AC/DC’s concert earlier this month.The idea to go started with something sad. Last spring, our sweet guinea pig Enoki died. The next morning, I found myself crying on the way to work and it reminded me of driving to work just after my brother Patrick passed away. Losing a pet is obviously not the same as losing a sibling, but a loss is a reminder of others. Regrets are like that too.Then “Back in Black” came blasting through the radio (I’m still
First Windows to the World (opens the original)
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In my last posts on elderhood, I described it as the stage when we start taking more of the burdens and fewer of the rewards so the kids can have something too. This time, I’m thinking about what shaped my view of the world and how that may bias me now.What did you see out your first window to the world? Does that same view shape what you see now? Is it skewing your view or entrancing you like a lullaby? Or maybe it’s haunting you by the silhouettes of something sad, scary, or missed?Knowing you
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