Like Elon Musk, Frank Rolfe skates close to madness. He is brilliant at what he does. He has popularized the industry and catalyzed many of the changes that happened over the past decade and a half. Many of us owe our business success to him. I chatted with him once in an elevator and enjoyed …
Chat GPT – write a paragraph about Goldman Sachs as a squid: Goldman Sachs is a well-known investment bank and financial services company, often referred to as “The Squid” due to its logo resembling a squid. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs has grown to become one of the most influential and profitable financial institutions in …
When my eighth-grade biology teacher asked our class if any of us remembered the word for white blood cells, a guy named Jonathan Harvey raised his hand and shouted, ‘Homocyte!’ The word he was half-remembering was phagocyte, which is a type of white blood cell. If you trace the Greek root of that term, it …
In college, a friend of mine wrote a story about a kingdom in the northern latitudes ruled by a queen: This was no Snow Queen or Queen of Hearts; nevertheless, she was every inch a queen, and to prove it, she had her own castle with gargoyles, turrets, parapets, towers and what not. The kingdom’s …
The Hainan Island Incident of 2001 is overshadowed by events that happened later that year, but when it transpired, it set the then-still-nascent Internet abuzz. An American spy plane, which had been flying over a disputed section of the South China Sea, collided with a Chinese fighter jet and was forced to make an emergency …
I was going to research how manufactured homes are tied down, but realized before I typed the query into Google that I don’t have to think any more. Instead, I typed, How are manufactured homes anchored into Chat GPT, and this came out: Manufactured homes are anchored to the ground using a variety of methods, …
Moral Hazard, by Kate Jennings, is a book that was published to great reviews and moderate sales in 2002 and then sunk like a stone. You can pick it up for under five bucks now on Thriftbooks, but for a while you could buy it on Amazon for a penny plus shipping. It is the …
Brendan Behan made much of growing up in a tenement, but he did not say that his grandmother owned the building. Brendan’s mother’s mother, Christine English, was referred to as the Empress of Russell Street, because she owned several tenement houses there, each of which could hold up to a hundred people. Residents would come …
–Assume a water molecule. –Where am I? -Some AirBNB in central New York. -What time is it? –3:45 AM. –Can I take a piss, O Socrates? -Of course. -Can I get a drink? -What can you do with a quart of water molecules? -Drink, wash, flush the toilet, put out fires. -Where does a water …
Here’s a text a resident of my park in northern New York who I will call Maria Gutierrez recently sent to Mike, the manager of that park: Hi Mike, I really need your help. What do I have to do to take Casey off of this lease? I don’t want him here anymore. I have …