In which I try to make 'fetch' happen
I think anyone who has ever used Google Maps to get directions can see the potential pitfalls of letting AI tell you where you go for Sunday dinner or the best local dry cleaners - let alone anything of greater consequence.
A blog by any other name ...
I read so many Substacks, in fact, that it can take up my entire morning--reading my subscriptions on the app, then commenting, then noticing who has 're-stacked' one of my articles . . .
Wait, what does this remind me of?
Death by chocolate
I overindulged over the long Easter holiday - not in beer - as is the local custom - but in
Me and ChatGPT
I'm over here like Violet Crawley looking through her fan at this horrible electric lighting.
An open letter to Duolingo
Please make the early levels more tourist-friendly.
Book Review: 'The Downstairs Girl' by Stacey Lee
Jo Kuan, the protagonist and titular Downstairs Girl, is a Chinese American teenager living in Atlanta, Georgia just after the end of the U.S. Civil War.
This is your brain on menopause
I'm not wrong. It turns out menopause can break your brain.
What I'm reading on Substack
I love that they are promoting individual voices. Jury is still out on supporting the platform, though.
I got 'reader's block' in 2023
This time last year, I made what I thought was a simple (and easy!) new year's resolution to read a total of 12 books in 2023.
We moved to Berlin
It's funny where life takes you.
