HeyJaredMeditations
Streams of consciousness from my occasionally cogent and sometimes twisted mind
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- Sep 18, 2026
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- Jul 17, 2026
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Strawberry Fields Forever (opens the original)
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Anthropic “whistleblower” Jacob Coxon seems an agreeable chap, the type one might introduce to one’s sister or daughter. His decision to forfeit equity while only two months from vesting is admirable. But a mathematician from Isaac Newton’s Trinity College should know proof from conjecture. Absent an emphatic QED, all he did with his doomer projection was crank up the volume in the echo chamber that is American politics.It wasn’t even original. Elon Musk was cheerleading AI doomerism back when h
We Are All Cockroaches Now (opens the original)
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I met a cockroach, before all the marching began.It was November, 2024. My phone lit up as we turned onto the NH-48 toward Gurgaon. Same person, three messages, all equally strident, on Instagram, LinkedIn, and my public email. He needed to see me: he had something important to share. I was en route to a book signing. Intrigued and slightly annoyed, I asked Harpal—let's call him that—to meet me at Bahrisons. He didn’t show. Familiar excuse—traffic. I invited him to an evening event at the Westin
The Odyssey? (opens the original)
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“I would be ashamed to have written any part of this,” says Emily Wilson about Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, faulting its lack of “psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth.”Harsh, coming from the writer of the most popular translation of Homer’s epic, but I agree. Consider that James Joyce’s version involves a cuckolded middle-aged Jewish advertising salesman who wanders through Dublin, finishing in the red-light district where he rescues a young man from a brawl and brings him h
unreliable narrator (opens the original)
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