When I started at Harvard in 2003, one of the first things I did was get my official ID card. When I got it, there was my picture. Underneath that was my name, and underneath that my status: Officer. It was a bit breathtaking. A few minutes before I was a schmuck. Now I was an officer at Harvard.#
I just had that kind of experience again. I went to my profile page on DALL-E, which I’ve been playing with lately, and there it said I was:#
What an unusual perspective. Here’s a place where saying someone is human is saying something. A familiar tweak I haven’t felt in a while — I am once again living in the future. 2023 has been like that for me, a lot of living in the past, and bringing it forward into the future, and then living in that future. I hope to do a lot more of that. Shoveling ideas from 20+ years ago that never got a chance into the future. #
You know what we say about that..#
Still diggin! #
PS: I get this feeling sometimes when I start using a new keyboard, as I did this morning. It’s a nice one, the same model as it replaces, which I just plain wore out. It will go to one of my other computers where it won’t have so much work to do. Its profile would say: Dave’s Keyboard, Keyboard. #
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