Flash back to my nineteen-year-old self and the bicentennial summer of 1976. It was in that year of patriotic celebrations that the northern Mississippi town of Houston hosted a blues concert featuring Bukka White, a native son of the area. As it happened, my family was then living there, a long way from where I grew up in the Piney Woods south of ... See more

I realized I wasn't just using AI as a tool—I was using it as a therapist, a coach, a mirror that reflected back patterns I couldn't see myself.

My real breakthrough came with what I call my "Daily 5"—five minutes each day where I stream-of-consciousness dump whatever's churning in my mind into a conversation with an AI. At first, it felt performati... See more

The Talmud in Berakhot 7a elaborates on this theme, teaching that God’s anger lasts only a moment—literally a fraction of a second—making it nearly impossible to exploit even if one could identify it. This rabbinic insight reinforces the futility of Balak’s temporal opportunism. God’s blessing operates independently of historical ebbs and flows, pl... See more