I: Ideas

Christmas as beauty in the bleak.

Any story told around a campfire or at a wedding is prone to exaggeration. It’s a device for the writer to inject the fantastic into the ordinary.

What’s the difference between wisdom and philosophy? (Saw this as a prompt for a writing competition… and it’s in the context of AI). Where philosophy might be abstract, external, and machine-possible, wisdom is hard earned. Wisdom is a kind of slow intelligence; no matter what you know, you have to apply it, misuse it, and grok the implications in