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Panama sunrise
Currently I am I Punta Chame, Panama for a meetup with the Jetpack Data team. It was a long flight (11.5 hours), but worth it. It is very beautiful. My body has been naturally waking up with right around sunrise. The first morning I just snapped a picture from my window at the Pink Palace…
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AI is not going to take over just yet
I wish I had blogged about this then, but I didn’t. Here’s an article from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) about how 2017 is going to be the year of the self-driving car. I would bet a dollar than no one reading this in 2023 has a fully self-driving car. I would…
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Book review: The Light in the Lake
As I was writing my family’s 2022 annual report last year, I was thinking of all the people I would send it to, and I got to thinking about an old college friend of mine, Sarah Baughman. I had kept in contact with her a bit over the years, but hadn’t talked to her in…
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I’m not creative
Last year I hear my son say “I am not creative”. I think he is wrong. I think what he really meant was that he is not that interested in traditional art projects like drawing and painting. Since he doesn’t enjoy them, he doesn’t do them often, and therefore he is not particularly good at…
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Don’t walk around with empty hands
In the winter of 1999, I worked as a rough carpenter for about 5 weeks. I was going to be studying in Germany for a semester, and I had a couple months off before I left. My dad used a connection at church to get me a job for a little while to earn a…