Go Jays!!

Everything mentioned above: lies, obfuscation, hype, lack of compassion, climate cost… is the soil from which ChatGPT is springing.

It should make us extremely wary of the extent to which we trust what he tells us.

Writing can be lonely. I'm gathering a group together for a month. Ping me if you're drawn - would love to have you.

What might a therapist say? I'm writing fiction and playing at responding....

Today's clients: Donald, Maria, Taylor & Travis, Mike

"I have a fantasy: five days. I want five days away with someone to focus on our emotional and sexual connection. Where the connection came first - not sight seeing, not visiting friends, not activities - but intimacy. Environment, food, time, centered around our connection in those five days."

I'm renaming Silicon Valley to give the whole thing a bit more levity. Isn't silicon amazing? The cousin of life on earth.

We become helpless children angry at the mere existence of Mom and Dad and their power. Everything that didn’t go right for us from the start gets projected onto those in power as if they were indeed our parents.

This was fun to do and also wildly sobering. The question of how to connect on rented platforms are real.

"Moving beyond this fate has nothing to do with the right man coming along (as Taylor’s album suggests) and everything to do with the alchemy at the heart of what looks like madness but is also intergenerational heartbreak, survival fear, and trauma."

"Left and right are simply concepts. Groups of ideas. The complexity of human values cannot be confined to this polarization."

"The most important thing we can all do for our world right now is to gain the power (the feeling of safety in being ourselves) that comes through nervous system capacity."