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Self-Driving Accidents

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Self-driving cars have been a dream for generations, and nominally self-driving cars (in reality they're often remote-driven) are on the road today. But self-driving cars react to problems in ways fundamentally alien to how humans react, and that leads to my theory: regardless of their accidents-per-mile or accidents-per-hour statistics, the accidents they get into will be ones that humans would have trivially avoided, and so self-driving accidents will provioke additional outrage. The solution going forward is better driver-assistance rather than self-driving.
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Stand Up and Cheer

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'...But now his long slow wrath is brimming over, and all the forest is filled with it. The coming of the hobbits and the tidings that they brought have spilled it: it will soon be running like a flood; but its tide is turned against Saruman and the axes of Isengard. A thing is about to happen which has not happened since the Elder Days: the Ents are going to wake up and find that they are strong .' The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien , page 122 My favorite media have at least one "stand up and cheer" moment. Without going into spoilers, I'll talk about why.
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Ideal Jobs and Superpowers

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As I've been looking for my next role, I've had to think about what my "ideal job" might look like. I've also had to think about what my "superpower" is: what I uniquely bring to a hiring organization. I don't know that I have a complete answer, but I reached a few conclusions recently. My ideal job is to take on a broken-but-fixable organization and bring it to where it doesn't need heroism to survive day-to-day. My superpower is to create the organizational bandwidth to make that happen.
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