HeyJaredGregg Taylor
Drummer, retired educator, lifelong musician, and reflective writer exploring music, politics, dogs, life, and the human condition, all grounded in my experiences, values, and beliefs. We all have two lives: the one we are given and the one we make.
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We Don’t Have to Vote Alike to Be Friends (opens the original)
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Agreeing With Me Isn’t a Requirement For FriendshipI don’t need my friends to vote the way I do. I’ve voted for Democrats and Republicans over the years. I’ve changed my mind, questioned my choices, and wondered what in the world I was thinking a few times.Agreeing with me isn’t a requirement for friendship. That would be a pretty small circle wouldn't it? We can disagree about policies, candidates, and where our country ought to be headed. I still want to be able to sit down with you, have a cu
We Are Not Merely Players (opens the original)
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Shakespeare wrote:“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.”It’s a great line obviously. People don’t keep repeating your words for four hundred years unless you got something right. We enter the stage, play our parts, and eventually, ready or not, we make our exit.The more I think about it, and sometimes I think I think too much, the more I believe Shakespeare was only partly right. We aren’t merely players. At least I don’t believe we are.We are also the writers, the
Are We Living in The Matrix? (opens the original)
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Some days I wonder if we are living in The Matrix. Not literally, of course. I don’t believe my body is floating in a pod somewhere while machines use me as a Duracell battery. At least I hope not. At seventy, I’m probably not producing enough energy to justify the maintenance.Think about how much of what we call reality reaches us through a screen.Algorithms decide what appears in front of us. Social media rewards anger because anger keeps us clicking. Artificial intelligence can now create wor
Today The Pen Is Still in Your Hands (opens the original)
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Just Another Day Ending in “Y”Every morning, everyone of us wakes up to a blank page. Most days, we don’t think of it that way though. We get out of bed, look at what needs to be done, and start checking boxes. Appointments. Errands. Work. Laundry. Bills. Something around the house that has needed fixing for six months but has apparently not yet become annoying enough.Just another day ending in “y”, except it isn’t.Today is the next page in the story of your life, and that page will be written w
The Question Is Not About AI (opens the original)
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Until we ask the right questions, we cannot hope to find the best solutions.AI may help us generate answers, analyze information, and identify possibilities. But even the most sophisticated technology cannot rescue us from a poorly framed question. If we ask only what AI can do, we may overlook what it should do or whether it should be used at all.The quality of the answer will always depend, in part, on the wisdom behind the question.The question is not whether artificial intelligence will chan
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