Newsletter 37: Why sharing and not hoarding is the only path to happiness, translators vs. AI, 500-billion word training set, plus three people to follow and three books to read. Why nobody owns anything We spend much of our lives striving to own things. We want to own a house, a car, a smartphone, a…
Cindy Adams “writes” for the New York Post. The scare quotes are because I “read” her Page Six columns about Maine and a few others, apparently dictated by text message, featuring incoherent and wandering collections of sentence fragments. Think of the ejecta of the average conspiracy theorist in a comment section and you’ve got the…
Yesterday my wife and I bought a house in Portland, Maine. We’ll be moving there soon. I thought you might be interested in how we chose Portland, after 40 years of living near Boston. Why New England? I moved to New England — Cambridge, Massachusetts — in 1979 at age 20 and I’ve been here…