Friend or Threat: What We Decide in Half a Second (When We Meet Strangers Not in Our Meeting Calendar)

Somewhere in the first half second of meeting someone new, your brain runs a background check faster than any conference badge scanner. It looks at the face, the outfit, the accent, and makes exactly one decision. Friend or threat. Nothing personal. It is the oldest app on your internal operating system, and it has never once asked for a software update.I got a live demo of this at Ai4 in Las Veg…
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Say Hello Before You Ask.

A friend of mine called on a Sunday night, not to talk about anything in particular, but to talk about a text message. Someone had replied to him with one word. "Sure." …
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Wildlife Doesn't Obey the Lines on the Map

I keep thinking about where she said it, and how hopeful it was.She said it to a room of people who draw the lines for a living. The San Diego Convention Center, the second week o…
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When the News Broke, So Did My Comedy

I take two walks a day now, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, a habit I built somewhere in the second year of the pandemic and never gave up. The earbuds go in, the san…
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