From the Heart

Personal essays and creative pieces that offer a glimpse into the writer's mind and heart. Explore intimate stories, reflections, and imaginative works.
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Building a Lego Cat
Examining the transformative impact of AI on enterprise workforce roles and highlighting strategies to navigate this transition effectively.
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Learning by Doing
Exploring how the principles of Scout camp—personalized guidance, real-world practice, and adaptive learning—can transform how we approach AI training and integration in the workplace.
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Riding the AI Wave
Exploring Mary Meeker's latest AI trends report through the lens of a father-son camping trip, examining how unprecedented AI adoption rates are transforming workplaces and what it means for employees across all industries.
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Beyond the Boundaries: Leading in a Post-AI Era
A contemplative exploration of how AI's dissolution of traditional work boundaries between words, images, numbers, and sounds creates new opportunities for distinctly human leadership grounded in empathy, wisdom, and connection.
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The Student Who Taught Herself
Watching my daughter learn math reminded me of a breakthrough in AI—AZR, a self-teaching model that reasons and grows without external data. This post reflects on learning, AI, and grace.
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Lighting the Trail
A personal case study of using AI to develop and execute a complete Cub Scout Arrow of Light curriculum, demonstrating how artificial intelligence can support human leadership in training and ceremony design while maintaining cultural sensitivity and educational effectiveness.
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The Salmon Made Me Do It
A personal story about using AI to cook a family salmon dinner that reveals deeper insights about how enterprises can build employee trust in AI through small, safe experimentation rather than diving into high-stakes applications.
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The Human Edge
Exploring the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on industries, employment, healthcare, and the human experience.
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Tell Me if Anything was Ever Done
Explore how Leonardo da Vinci’s unfinished works and perfectionism offer timeless lessons for creators. Learn why shipping your ideas, even when imperfect, can inspire the world and leave a lasting legacy.
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Custom Communication Styles in AI
Learn how to identify your unique communication style and use prompt engineering to make AI tools adapt to your preferences.
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Custom Writing Styles in AI
Learn how to capture your unique writing style and use AI to generate content that sounds like you.
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Memory of Myths and the Naming of 𒀀𒌋𒀯
Explore cosmic epochs through the gaze of 𒀀𒌋𒀯 (Aeon), merging myth, folklore, and the universe's vastness, highlighting existence's fleeting nature. 𒀀𒌋𒀯, a timeless entity, seamlessly integrates into any TTRPG, enriching narratives with a sense of continuity that transcends time, space, and genre, offering players a unique conduit to weave their stories across diverse settings and epochs, thereby deepening the game's immersive experience.
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Dehydrated
A mysterious girl named Alice is found wandering. The medical examination reveals more questions than answers, and the protagonist's discovery in his front yard leaves him forever changed. A story that delves into the unknown, leaving readers to ponder what lies just beyond the realm of human understanding.
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A Beginning
Ted Tschopp shares the first chapter of a new fiction project, rooted in memory and myth. A woman sorting through her grandfather’s papers discovers echoes of ancient stories, written in his hand but drawn from deeper wells of human remembrance.
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The Path West: Reflections on Time, Forgiveness, and Departure
This evocative poem explores themes of time, forgiveness, and the human quest for redemption. Through imagery of the ocean, sand, and a journey into the west, the poet conveys a sense of longing, reflection, and peaceful acceptance of life's inevitable end.