As someone who’s been an information technology professional for over three decades, I’ve learned a few things along the way. It has been said that
I’ve devoted a lifetime to the study of computing technology and ancient wisdom. I absolutely do not have all the answers. What I can tell you is how you can better prepare yourself to help me – to help humanity – find the answers.
The serpent, the bringer of truth, spoke to the first woman and told her she had a choice: eat the fruit from the tree of good and evil (i.e. take the red pill) and “grow up,” or never leave her state of eternal childlike innocence. The latter may sound appealing in theory, but it runs counter to how most people are hardwired.
Self-reading with a divination tool is a form of self-administered therapy, and the better one knows oneself, the better their results are likely to be. It takes time, commitment, and a willingness to face things that will sometimes feel uncomfortable.
Magicians frequently attribute their power to gods, spirits, or other invisible beings, which indicates that they are dependent on other powers. Although we think of technology as a tool, as artificial intelligence and robotics become increasingly integrated into our daily lives, we may start to feel more like we are asking an independent actor to act on our behalf rather than just using a tool.
Most of us have heard the above quote a few hundred times already, but how could we not start this site with it? Those eight
Each and every one of your nameless ancestors was a real human, with hopes, desires, fears, and who most likely loved and was loved. And, without a doubt, without each and everyone one of them, neither you nor I would be here today.
Lately, I’ve been playing with Midjourney (via my home Discord channel). If you’re not familiar with it, there’s Midjourney bot that can be installed into Discord servers and, for a small monthly fee, you can make images of anything you can imagine.
There are just over 60,000 plugins in the WordPress.org repository at the time of this writing. In many cases, the issue isn’t that you can’t find a plugin to suit your needs but instead you find several and are faced with making a choice. How do you decide which is best for you?
When changing something as dramatic as one’s worldview, one will likely find that there are many things that remain unchanged “by default,” which is to say, some things just tag along as baggage from one’s old ways of thinking. Having myself come from a staunch Christian upbringing, I understand how these things can happen. I wanted to share a few of the “gotchas” that I encountered along the way.
“Ignorant” isn’t quite the insult that our society considers it to be. Ignorance isn’t stupidity; it’s a lack of knowledge about a given subject. Due to the massive amount of information available to us today, combined with the limitations of the human brain, it’s a given that we’re all ignorant when it comes to perhaps millions of topics. Being ignorant isn’t a bad thing; it’s completely normal — and totally unavoidable.
For many of us, swords are special even today, and there’s no doubt that they were special throughout much of human history. Amid all that romanticism, one might be forgiven for forgetting that a sword is simply a tool, made for use in battle. It’s easy to forget sometimes that we developers are making tools that people use to get things done.