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Tag: Emerson

  • How I use AI (and why)

    12:31pm
    East of the Mississippi

    Not sure if you spend any time on LinkedIn, but there seems to be a lot of marketers there.

    And of the marketers who post, they tend to fall into two camps:

    One camp that posts plenty of AI content, often from other creators, and talks about how game-changing AI is––and maybe you want to buy their course.

    And one camp that doesn’t want anything to do with AI.

    I have a more nuanced take, which of course isn’t polarizing enough to gain much traction.

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  • Ralphy Emerson’s ideas on duality and contrast

    Yesterday I wrote a bit about Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay, Compensation.

    In the essay, Emerson argues that everyone is compensated, for the good or the bad, in relation to the good or bad they bring to others in the world.

    Good, or bad. These are relative terms, of course, defined by their polarizing nature. You can’t have one without the other.

    The compiled Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
    The compiled Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Emerson’s Compensation opens with a discussion of the polarity of nature, (more…)