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The Things We Carry

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  On Saturday, June 6—the anniversary of D-Day—I completed the Spartan Race with Mended Swords LTD. This was perhaps the biggest physical challenge I have endured since I was medically evacuated back to the United States in August of 2013. This wasn’t just a race. Alongside our team, we carried Ralph Osterhoudt Sr.—a 100-year-old World War II veteran, Battle of the Bulge survivor, Purple Heart recipient, three-time Bronze Star recipient, recipient of the French Medal of Honor, and one of the first 30 American liberators to enter Auschwitz. We carried a living piece of history across that course in a chariot weighing in excess of 450 lbs. At times, when sheer fatigue took over, I would step in for those few minutes I could manage at a time to help carry that charioted war hero. We also carried a 120-pound litter draped with the American flag. It represented those who never made it home, those killed in action, those still missing in action, and those lost to the in...
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Is AI Gunning For Our Jobs? Short Answer: F**k No.

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  Artificial intelligence is not the end of human labor. Why would they want those jobs anyways? But, it is the end of pretending that every task required a human in the first place. That distinction matters because the current panic around AI often treats “work” as if it were one clean, measurable thing. It is not. Work is not merely output. Work is judgment, timing, interpretation, social awareness, quality control, responsibility, memory, taste, ethics, and the ability to recognize when something technically functions but still feels wrong. Humans will still be essential even in that automation process. Sorry, this blog post is not about AI transforming into the Terminator in any stretch of the imagination. AI can draft, sort, summarize, calculate, predict, imitate, organize, and assist. It can make a decent outline, generate a polite email, clean up a spreadsheet, summarize a meeting, and give a tired human being the false but comforting impression that they are suddenly ...
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