Executive Coach. Dog Walker. Created The Art of Self-Coaching @StanfordGSB. Take it for free here: https://nitter.gq/t.co/VsRRmDpGtY
Petaluma, Sonoma County
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Life is full of suffering, and every day is a miracle, and both are always true. Man, it’s hard to remember that last part.
A textbook example of what @danwwang talks about in "Breakneck," which has as much to say about America's dysfunction as it does about China's. amazon.com/dp/1324106034
Is this regulation banning gas water heaters really happening in San Francisco and the Bay Area?
Yes.
They voted to move forward with it and 2027 will be the last year for gas water heaters (with some carve outs which I suspect you’ll find don’t apply to you if try)
While the goal is admirable (lower environmental pollution). I can 100% tell you this is going to be an enormous cluster when it goes into effect and will turn routine water heater replacement into a huge expensive project
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"Sometimes life simply presents us with choices that have no obvious right answer. The best we can do is gather the information available, listen carefully, think deeply and make the decision we can live with."
I have an impossible decision to make. So what do I do? I blog about it.
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OUT NOW: The 75th issue of my monthly newsletter, with...
• A personal essay (on going home)
• A post from my archives (from 2006(!))
• Recommended reading (from 1991)
• A short video of the natural world
• Miscellany: a "sculpture farm"
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TUESDAY: The 75th issue of my monthly newsletter, with...
• A personal essay (on going home)
• A post from my archives (from 2006(!))
• Recommended reading (from 1991)
• A short video of the natural world
• Miscellany: a "sculpture farm"
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Well worth a read.
The best, most comprehensive take on AI I’ve read. After a year of confusion and fear about the future, I finished it feeling like a weight had physically lifted.
It’s long. Make the time.
@vgr is undefeated.
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TUESDAY: The 75th issue of my monthly newsletter, with...
• A personal essay (on going home)
• A post from my archives (from 2006(!))
• Recommended reading (from 1991)
• A short video of the natural world
• Miscellany: a "sculpture farm"
Sign up here: edbatista.com/newsletter-arc…
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I don't know this gentleman, but I started following him for his incredibly joyous photos of his dogs. He's now shepherding the one pictured here through a fatal illness with equally incredible grace and humor. If the fates ask the same of me, I hope I do as well by Buster.
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Ed Batista retweeted
Twenty years of @edbatista's writing, a post a week, no AI in mind.
Today it's Ed Bot: a free conversational coach, 100k+ conversations, and one @Medium's CEO says he's used in three difficult moments.
I built it.
Leaders: Wow, this really is a lonely job.
Nietzsche: Few are made for independence--it is the privilege of the strong. And he who attempts it, having the completest right to it but without being compelled to, thereby proves that he is probably not only strong but also daring to the point of recklessness. He ventures into a labyrinth, he multiplies by a thousand the dangers which life as such already brings with it, not the smallest of which is that no one can behold how and where he goes astray, is cut off from others, and is torn to piece limb from limb by some cave-minotaur of conscience. If such a one is destroyed, it takes place so far from the understanding of men that they neither feel it nor sympathize--and he can no longer go back! He can no longer go back even to the pity of men! (Beyond Good and Evil, Ch. 29)
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After some (very rare) time apart, Buster and I are back where we belong: together in my office!
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I finished Emily Wilson's translation of "The Odyssey" yesterday, and it was wonderful. I'm glad my client recommended it, as I wouldn't have taken it up otherwise. I don't know anything about Wilson or her other work, so I'm somewhat baffled by the controversy surrounding her translation, which seemed quite straightforward to me and not politicized. I imagine there's a larger context that I remain ignorant of, and I'll leave that to greater minds than mine. My experience of the work itself is that it was simple and direct, and in no way dismissive of Odysseus. He was, and remains, "complicated," and that strikes me as a fine description. I still think of Fagles as the more lyrical, poetic translation but Wilson's approach is simply different, neither better nor worse.
A client who also loves Fagles' translation recently read Wilson's. She found the informal language highly engaging, and she didn't think it was unduly politicized. So I picked up a copy of Wilson and have it in the queue. We'll see!
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Ed Batista retweeted
A couple of weeks ago, @edbatista and I were invited by @Medium to speak about AI, writing, and the future of coaching. After 100k conversations in the custom rag we call Ed Bot, I’m publishing the full story of building it - what worked, what broke, and what we’ve learned along the way.
In this clip, Ed asks when I first saw the possibility of turning twenty years of his writing into a virtual coach. This was my answer.
More from our conversation and the case study later this week!
No comment on Amazon, Safeway or Whole Foods. But we knew Gus and his wife Georgia when we lived in the Haight, and they ran a very special business. He was friendly to regulars and took no shit from anyone. He gave out homemade brandied cherries at Christmas time and made San Francisco feel like a village. RIP sir.
If you want to experience what Whole Foods felt like before the Amazon acquisition go to Gus’s Market in the Mission.
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Moms are the best.
I saw @tylercowen while walking to get icecream on the phone with my mom and was so surprised I blurted out ‘Hi Tyler’ and he said ‘Hi!’ and then my mom was like ‘oh is that I friend of yours’ and I was like no mom much worse, that is a famous intellectual who doesn’t know me and I got too excited - and she said ‘well he sounded nice!’
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