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Hello it’s Dan Ozzi and welcome to ZERO CRED. Subscribe to get all posts sent right to your inbox. Normally I (mostly) write about music but I thought I’d try something a little different today. Last month I was invited to do a reading at The Book Catapult in San Diego as part of Kevin Kearney’s Small Press Nite series. The other readers were , , and Caiti Borruso. I don’t do these sorts of things often, mainly because I don’t get invited to.

This year, my father and I made a suicide pact, although I feel the term may be a bit misleading, here. For a phrase that contains the word “suicide” in it, it's really more about staying alive. But maybe I'm getting ahead of myself. Last December, as we were preparing to celebrate Christmas, my father confessed that, unbeknownst to me, almost 4 years prior, he had made a suicide attempt, and that it would have been successful had he not changed his mind at the 11th hour and gone to the ER.

Doug Lenat was one of the most brilliant, acerbically funny people I have ever met. If people like Marvin Minsky, John McCarthy, and Allen Newell were among the first to think deeply about how symbolic AI, in which machines manipulate explicit verbal-like representations, might work, Doug was the first to try really hard to make it actually work. I have spent my whole career arguing for consilience between neural networks and symbolic AI, and on the strictly symbolic side of that equation, Lenat was light-years ahead of me, not just more deeply embedded in those trenches than I, but the architect of many of those trenches.

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For whatever reason, it took me seventeen years to own the Babyshambles Down in Albion album. When it was released, I heard it on the Internet but never got around to obtaining this beast of a record. By no means am I a Peter Doherty expert, who is the primary singer/songwriter for Babyshambles, and came to be through the band The Libertines. Still, I was interested in how The Libertines or their management conveyed the relationship between Doherty and his creative equal, Carl Barât.

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This past Sunday evening, a few hundred people gathered at the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville to celebrate the work of Dr. Bobby Jones, an innovative force in gospel music who brought the form into millions of homes internationally with his weekly telecast, Bobby Jones Gospel. The show began on local television in Nashville in 1981 and then, by 1985, was seen in over 500 markets including, according to a Tennessean feature that year, “BET and CBN TV channels, the major-market PBS stations and the Armed Forces network.

I think about death regularly. Not so much of my own — though no one can really escape fantasizing about how they’ll leave this messy place one day — but rather the people I love. The eventual loss of my parents viscerally scares the hell out of me a lot more than my own demise. Contemplating it is like a coping mechanism to prepare myself for the inevitable. But don’t get me wrong, I know I can't be prepared for something like that.

“This is a disruptive period in our world’s history, and people don’t like change. Change is not bad. It can allow opportunities for everyone. It doesn’t have to displace your current opportunities, your current future. So how do you get people to understand that change is good? How do you get them to make that change?” These are some of the key questions Dr. Jason Wingard was reflecting on in the latest episode of Lori On Leadership.