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My WTF. Edition Three. (Aug 12, 2024 - Aug 16, 2024)

Welcome to another thrilling edition of "My Weekly Timeline Feed" (or as I like to call it, My WTF). The world is a fascinating, ever-changing circus, and here I am, trying to keep up while juggling my very limited understanding of it all. Just when I think I’ve finally got a handle on something, the universe throws in a plot twist, reminding me how much I don’t know. So, in this third edition of My WTF, I’m diving headfirst into the wild worlds of the Machine Economy, Security, Life Sciences, and Governance; trying to make sense of recent developments, or at least pretending I do.

Let’s get into it:

8/16/24
in WTF, Machine Economy, Life, Governance
8 min read

How It Started

"Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories."

-- Zig Ziglar, American Author, Salesman.

I was born in Toronto to a young couple who were still learning about who they were and how to navigate the world. At the time, their idea of what family meant was highly influenced by a centralized media narrative that was artfully designed around the perfect nuclear family. At the opposing side of this idealistic narrative was the reality of their real life experience in an unstable and dysfunctional family environment. Their parents, my grandparents, were ill prepared for navigating the world that was unfolding in the 1960s. Both my parents grew up in poverty and never had the opportunities to form strong relationships with their parents, peers and siblings. Needless to say, this volatile family experience made them vulnerable to the world.

1/1/21
in Life
3 min read