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This week, Craft and Chaos declares a brief ceasefire with the howling void and asks a genuinely radical question: what do you do that has absolutely no purpose except that it makes you happy? The answers involve a lathe, a murder, a harmonica, and the strongest case ever made for a 2002 kung fu parody that bombed so hard at the box office it practically cratered the earth.
Thirty days into a new CEO role, COVID arrived — and Tonia Wellons responded by building a ten-year plan. This week, Carrie Fox reflects on why that counterintuitive decision is still the right lesson for every leader navigating a world that keeps demanding reaction.
You’ve been calling them friends before they’ve earned it — and that’s where the hurt comes from. Caroline Maguire is here to rewrite the whole friendship map.
The machine does exactly what we designed—and that’s the problem. We dig into “Colossus: The Forbin Project,” the Thinking Machines series opener about Cold War AI and the danger of indifference.
Passive aggressive behavior looks innocent but hits hard. Bill Eddy and Megan Hunter explain why it’s really aggression—and how to respond.
Pong Krell set the 501st against each other on Umbara. Was it genius evil or a storytelling flinch? Matthew and Alex debate the darkest arc in The Clone Wars.