The Years: Book Review
It’s as if I’ve just read my own biography. I haven’t, of course: The Years is clearly ordered and clearly labelled as Ernaux’s autobiography, or memoire, from the date of her birth in 1941...
Category: reading
Training robots?
LinkedIn advertises quite a few job opportunities in the “AI training” area. Please, fellow writers, don’t squander your hard-earned human skill on robots! Writing is a way for humans to discover, invent and evolve,...
Individual Development Repeats Species Development
The title refers to the theory “Ontogeny Repeats Phylogeny”, credited to the German biologist Ernst Haeckel. Since Stephen Jay Gould’s detailed investigation of it in 1977, it has some standing as a framework for...
homo interneticus
What a discovery (never mind that it’s been under my nose for years.)! I learned about Michael H. Goldhaber and his contrasting terms homo interneticus and homo typographicus in the journal The Economist just...
Reading Aloud
Maybe I’m not the only one who occasionally feels deeply out of synch with her fellow humans. I didn’t expect it to happen as much as it has in my current focus on reading...
Humans Typing Fast
This morning, I gave myself a classic typing test. There was a reason. I won’t claim it was a good one, but we’ll get to that. It concerned a job I learned about yesterday...