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Let the World Soften You with Its Touching
Dear Friend, What if we really could “write poems and save the planet,” as poet laureate Ada Limón suggests in her introduction to this beautiful collection? What if we could read poems and save ourselves? As I neared the end of You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, I began to feel the urge…
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You Are Here in the Natural World
Dear Friend, It will be no surprise to anyone paying attention that I didn’t get far with my reflections on Hewitt’s All Down Darkness Wide. I want to apologize for missing some of those updates, but to be honest, I finished the book much, much sooner than expected and got so caught up in the…
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Shouting into the Hollow Trunk of the World
Dear Friend, Sometimes I’ve wondered about memoir as a genre. Why do we read a segment of some individuals’ stories? And who decides to share theirs? Isn’t that, well, egotistical? But then I step into a memoir whose story is more than the individual’s and whose prose is poetry, and I blush at the questions…
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The End of Human Supremacy?
Dear Friend, In the latter part of Co-Intelligence, Ethan Mollick continues to lay out the ways we could and should think about AI, and he continues to explore the ethical implications of AI, challenging readers to think critically about how we engage with this technology. While much of the book is full of optimism about…
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Acting, and Hallucinations, and Lies. Oh my.
Dear Friend, Computer, are you alive? Two Shocking Statements In this section of the book (which is the second section, because I’m a week behind), Mollick lays out four principles for engaging with Generative AI. In the first two parts, Mollick throws down a couple of shocking statements. In part one, where we’re encouraged to…
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