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When a person is not a person (opens the original)
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“Are you a person?”I asked this of a voice which I believed was AI generated. I was on the phone with Best Buy about a service call, and asked the obviously AI interlocuter who began the call by announcing their AI-ness, for a person.“Talk to a person” I said, repeating the refrain as I usually do when I need to accomplish something on a call.The “person” to whom I was transferred spoke with a slight accent, clipped syllables and that tiny pause which signaled the uncanny valley of generative AI
The Death of Curiosity (opens the original)
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“Did you ask them?”In over a decade of executive coaching this is the question I have asked most often. Clients arrive in a session lost in a thicket of supposition, assumption, and umbrage over the behavior of another person and impute motives or, more often, ask me to impute motives.“Why do they do this?”“Did you ask them?”The number one suggestion I offer is to get curious. Really curious. Not asking your executive coach or friend “I wonder why she does that thing?” or “Why won’t he stop doin
Constructive Conflict (opens the original)
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We were fighting over less than an inch of countertop.The craftsman who specializes in tilework disagreed with me about how close the back of the sink should be to the new tile backsplash.I, the homeowner, wanted the tile to abut the sink and remove the tiny canal between sink and wall which filled with water and rotted the trim behind it. And, as we saw when the trim was removed, damaged the wall itself, which stood open and eroded like a destroyed tooth. He said the canal would not be a proble
A buck and a half (opens the original)
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What if this is the terminal termination, the end point you don’t get to come back from? How many people who have been laid off have seen their top earnings, their highest position in the rear-view mirror? What if I never make it back to where I was even a few years ago? Not because of product or market or ability. But just because of age?“This is Stephanie. She is a writer.”I was nineteen. One of my creative writing teachers in college introduced me to another writer with these words. My actual
We’re all going to die. You might as well clean up first. (opens the original)
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I just turned 64. I don’t feel old. It’s hard to contemplate a time when I might die, or be infirm, or need physical help. I have been the caregiver, not the care receiver. Most days, I prefer not to consider the fragility of our shared mortality.But I do it anyway. My friend Eugene, who is all of 8 days younger than I am, had a stroke in the beginning of July. We often get no advance notice of the pending Bitch Slap of Fate.My daughter, who is in her late thirties, recently thanked me for takin
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