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How to Follow Up on Your Suspicion

December 01, 2025 by Scott Meyer

NOTE: So, a little bad news, I will need to take the next two weeks off. By the time you read this, I will be back, but Missy and I have to go back to Eastern Washington for a funeral. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Scott suspects that in the first draft of the Billy Joel song "Always a Woman," anywhere the word "woman" appears, it was originally "A-hole." Whoever she is who can kill with a smile, wound with her eyes, and ruin your faith with her casual lies, Billy Joel doesn't seem to like her. Wikipedia says he wrote it about his first wife. Rick's reaction is that it's a love song, not a like song. Love and like are very different things. Just ask his ex-wives.

December 01, 2025 /Scott Meyer
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How to Understand Another Person's Point of View

October 16, 2023 by Scott Meyer

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How to Remain Optimistic

January 19, 2022 by Scott Meyer

If we ever create an artificial intelligence that is truly superior to us, it may well keep us around to make itself feel superior. It also may to try to improve us, in the spirit of helping the less fortunate.

Imagine a future where robots constantly criticize us or instruct us how to do things, then smother us with condescending praise as we try to follow their advice.

I might prefer extermination.

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