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    Decade of Hope: Midpoint Check-in

    In the midst of COVID 19 and personal turmoil, I wrote a blog post thinking ahead about the decade starting with the year 2020.  I included exciting space missions and personal goals.  We are now at the middle of the decade and I thought it would be nice to check in on those ideas and see how they progressing.  Let’s see how we did! Summary from ChatGPT: Mars 2020 (Perseverance & Ingenuity) Artemis Program (2024 & 2028) Electric Vehicles (EVs) Autonomous Driving Renewable Energy Smart Homes There were a few things I missed on my first post like the advances…

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    Florida Thanksgiving

    This was lightly edited via A.I., but I did proofread, so hopefully everything make sense. 🙂 This time, I loaded everything onto my tiny, powerful phone from China (shh!). Cards and boarding pass went into my mobile wallet—no more paper! The phone’s brightness and scrolling worked great, unlike my last flight when the app failed to display the pass. NFC is now mainstream, with “Tap to Pay” everywhere, and the wallet works offline too. My journey began at a hazy airport in Illinois, dreaming of Florida sun and family celebrations with nearly 20 people. I wished for a better U.S.…

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    Finding Balance: Lessons from “Aggressively Happy” and “Bittersweet”

    Aggressively Happy by Joy Marie Clarkson Bittersweet by Susan Cain I read these two books a while ago and really liked how they felt like two sides of the same coin. While the idea of comparing these books was my idea, OpenAI’s ChatGPT wrote the draft. I have testing out AI in my free time and wanted to test it out on a blog post. 🙂 Introduction In our fast-paced, ever-changing world, the pursuit of happiness and fulfillment often seems like an elusive goal. Two books, Joy Marie Clarkson’s Aggressively Happy: A Realist’s Guide to Believing in the Goodness of…