This is cuene.com, and I’ve been making the web smaller, one post at a time, since the 90’s.
I write about the things that seem worth paying attention to: books, travel, history, business, technology, investing, endurance sports, and the complicated work of building a meaningful life. Some essays explore ideas and trends shaping our world. Others are personal reflections on family, ambition, aging, creativity, and the choices that define us over time
You’ll find observations from long bike rides, notes from travels in the United States and abroad, reflections on literature and storytelling, and practical thinking about money, strategy, and decision-making. I’m particularly interested in how people pursue their goals, how institutions evolve, and how individuals find purpose in a rapidly changing world.
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Why do we think about what we think about? Why do we know what we know? How do we know it’s true? This talk from Yuval Noah Harari has amped up my anxiety about what AI will do to us while it works for us. Key takeaways: We’ve given the keys to our society and…
Duh! (see what I did there?) So it must be that a key ingredient to blogging is simple: have a willingness to state something that seems obvious to you but nobody else is saying it. Source: Blogging Can Just Be Stating The Obvious – Jim Nielsen’s Blog
It’s going to be a beautiful June day in Minnesota. My father would have been 99 today. He’s not here anymore, but he feels as present to me as he ever has. I still think about calling him at happy hour on Sundays to talk about golf, the stock market, his dog and the Packers.…