A Critical Perspective of “Not In God’s Name” by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, part 1 or chapters 1-4

In engaging with Rabbi Jonathan Sacks's Not In God's Name, I've drawn from the Christian perspectives of Richard Rohr and J.R.R. Tolkien, as well as the broader insights of the Perennial tradition via Leibniz and Huxley, to reflect to provide a critique of Sacks's ideas, particularly his treatment of religious interpretation and the role of …

Another ChatGPT conversation to create a LinkedIn post about resume customization

See the actual post here. Note that this is on 4.0 where the last post was on 3.5. UserThis is the content I'm thinking of for a linkedin post: A hot take on a topic I'm not qualified to speak to: You should not need to update your resume for each job application. Advice to …

Wrangling ChatGPT into writing a LinkedIn Post

I thought it might be interesting (to me or the nebulous you) to record my usage of ChatGPT to write weekly LinkedIn Posts during my 2024 job search. Here's a link to the relevant post and a history of the prompts below. User here's my post draft so far, too long of course. please suggest …

Blake and Mona #B – Something earlier than the first part

I wasn't sure after I wrote #A whether that was the beginning of the story or the end. I thought about it for a couple of weeks, and then drafted this without much forethought. It gave me the momentum I needed to know that #A was probably the climax and I was writing a slice-of-life …

A public reaming of myself, and Overwatch, and our relationship

Boy, when I said Blizzard and Overwatch were out to ruin my life, I both did and didn't realize how much I wasn't joking. My primary hobby since my youth has been video gaming. Whenever I have some time to burn, I return to it. Historically this hasn't been a huge issue in that it …

Blake and Mona #A – The first part, probably also the climax

All writings will be posted in the order I wrote them. I wrote this piece in September 2017. Method to post is: Write by hand using Noodler's Apache Sunset in a Mont Blanc fountain pen I bought myself (on credit) while in the UK after college (just to make sure it was as expensive as …

New project for 2018: Untitled fiction project about Blake and Mona

Hi all, I don't really expect anyone to be reading this blog after a 9 year hiatus, more or less, but I'm going to try and get started again. When I originally started this blog, I was using it as a means of staying creative during the summer holiday of my MFA program. Left to …

Not actually a #BayWriteClub submission: A response to a dragon-moved-into-your-neighborhood writing prompt

The dragon’s voice barked defensively out of the darkness. “You don’t tell me what I can and can’t do!” Nick answered aggressively, “No, you tell you that. It was you who told us when we first arrived here why you don’t leave your cave, why you don’t hunt any more,” but his voice betrayed a …

Sunday writing 20150802 (#BayWriteClub): A (second) fantastical start, cont’d: Birth of the recorder; Rewrite second half of first scene first- to third-person

The eldest woke up in rain. It had washed the mud from him and shriveled his skin, but no wind blew and he learned some summer comfort. From his rock, he looked out on the world, and it was all rolling waves of mud. The waves washed over the rock, dirtying him and his home, …

Sunday writing 20150802 (#BayWriteClub): A (second) fantastical start, cont’d: The tower of babble

The aggressor called out: “Go into the fields, and grab the first stone you see larger than your fist, and bring it back here. Together, we shall build a mighty thing, a home that will not leak in rain or bluster in the wind! Together we shall make something permanent, something to keep, something that’s ours!” …