Official Washington is still on its unofficial month-long August recess. While members of Congress, congressional staffers, administration officials, and federal bureaucrats will begin to trickle back into the city after Labor Day, Congress will not reconvene until September 9.
This past weekend, I stood in the middle of the third fairway and found myself facing golf’s equivalent of a microeconomic dilemma.
To look at me today you might not know it, but there was a time when I was an avid distance runner. Over a nine-year period, I trained for seven marathons, ran in and finished five; ran two half-marathons; completed a dozen 10-milers and an equal amount of 10ks; and regularly logged 25-28 miles a week.
This past week, my daughter had her—ahem—birthday. Together, my wife, son, daughter, and I all went to dinner. It sounds simple, but it’s something we don’t do often enough since the kids moved on, we sold our home, and downsized into a condo. While I knew I was getting the bill at the end of the meal, for the most part, I just sat back and enjoyed the good-natured ribbing my son and daughter gave one another.
I’ve been wanting to write for some time about the link between Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in business; it just hadn’t completely come together for me until this past week. My wife and I were sitting on the couch, watching the Olympics, and we saw something that shocked us.