“…the Gen-Z exit…” overheard near Bank, London.

“We’ve all got to die of something, he thought. Even if it’s just from staying alive too long.” Mini-story: Retirement

I’m hear in the AMS KLM and lounge, and because the business people are blaring their calls on the speaker, I realize that we’re all talking about AIs. Even if you have a VoIP app. I mean, including me. Just not VoIP.

They all have a take on “agentic.” “Hey, guys, here’s the thing about agentic…”

I just heard the phrase “break out economics” and “offshore agent.”

Loving it…?

There’s still enterprise marketing writing that beings “In today’s fast-evolving technology landscape…”

Trusting every (short) video you see is now a very bad idea. Because AI. Hopefully we’ll go back to just trusting humans and making sure we have enough of a shared model of the world to do so.

“Even paranoid people have enemies.” Ron Emanuel, _Political Gabfest, October 30th, 2025.

”becoming a parent has forced me to prioritize predictability and comforts that are compatible with the routines and demands of a toddler.” When East Becomes West

“Be yourself,” they always tell me. Yes, but, if I was being myself, I would not have shown up.

There’s a wave of “Back in my day…” nostalgia in the near future as us Gen-X’ers get older. I hope we do it more cool than the boomers did, or just quietly on our own instead of all over Facebook.

“There is so much road in American roads. They widen and narrow like rivers, now six lanes, now twelve, now, but surely not?, fourteen, with various slip roads, merging lanes, separate roads running parallel behind a wall. Road, road, road, stretching out ahead of you towards the mountains.” Henry Oliver