We're building a tool to help people living near a forest to make a plan to harden their homes and property against wildfire risk.

This requires building many layers of information that doesn't currently exist.

1) Get the perimeter of the house mapped using public data.

Last night I was able to generate the latitude and longitude of the corners of the building as defined by Google Maps!

While not perfect, it's a start. AI and photos will refine that perimeter.

2) Add trees

I just saw this on Telegram.
A UAV (drone) delivering a dog-style robot in a war zone.
This looks like a test.
But, vendors have already started fitting these robots with munitions.
I've read that they are currently using these robots to deliver ammunition to troops in Ukraine.
#ukraine
#israel

Just finished building a patch panel for the new stereo.
I got tired of pulling the old stereo out of the rack to change cables. Broke the audio-optical plug once.
Once this is in I shouldn't ever have to pull it out.
This took 2 days to design, spec and assemble. Just finished labeling.

Taking a self driving taxi to dinner is now normal.
Also, more reliable and civil (no crazy drivers, crazy driving or stinky cars).

The abstraction of "infidelity" does not have a place in certain types of minds.
It doesn't register.
There is no place to consider "OK" or "Bad" or "WTF?"

Those of us that do have that place in our minds to consider these sorts of abstractions are puzzled by those that don't.

Consider how NC Lt Gov Mark Robinson's email address was registered on Ashley Madison.
It doesn't matter to him.
Nor to his supporters.

It
Doesn't
Register.

Before we argue
We must agree
On what our words
Mean

If I use a word...
It means something.

I'm conveying my insight about how the world works or will be.

If my audience (friends, family) does not understand that word, I am not understood.

These are words that describe abstractions that I do not believe my audience understands:

- Data
- Trend
- Probability
- Policy
- Demographic
- Foundation
- Branch
- Endpoint
- Entity
- Alignment
- Governance
- Utilization
- Capacity
- Productivity
- Constraint
- Efficiency
- Accelerant
- Flow
- Concept

I'm finding it disconcerting that I've been using a language that few can understand.

I've been speaking for years while friends and family nod merely in respect and not agreement.

They
Never
Understood

In my early 30's I was trained to use abstractions to think.

Before, I used intuition and looked for confirming evidence.

I struggled before I learned about abstractions.

I then built a career solving hard problems.

The problems were often created by people who could not use abstractions to understand what was happening to their business.

Now I realize that this "skill" is not shared by everyone.

I cannot use abstractions in an argument and succeed. They don't understand them.

So, let me get this straight.....
Hezbollah gets thousands of its people scrambled by hacked pagers.
Then, the very next day, they get say "Well, we didn't see that coming. Let's start using another electronic wireless device (with a rechargeable battery whose supply chain we haven't analyzed) to communicate. There's nothing to worry about with those, right?"
If laptops and cellphones start killing people on Thursday and then Friday ..... I dunno...
#israel

Whoah.
1/2 pt drop in rates.
Big move.

But don't expect that to continue back to 2%.
Structurally, we have a lot of building to do before the US (and Mexico) can supply its demand without importing from China.

So, inflation will persist for probably a decade.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ianbremmer_twitterxs-revenue-collapse-q2-2022-activity-7241825032203563010-KQxG

Earth traversing the Moon's horizon:

https://x.com/i/status/1836061669602017336

Every Trump supporter I've encountered does not show evidence that they are comprehending the abstract concepts I propose.

If you can't think abstractly
You don't appreciate data.
Data is an abstraction of reality.

Vote count is data.

This is why Trump supporters can't be argued with.

This where the gap exists between the Trump supporters and the others.

#3 is just being discovered by neuroscientist and amplified by airBnB's former strategist Chip Connely.

#1 and #2 persist throughout the average, intelligent person's life.

#3 is the next level

This is where the confusion between the liberals, progressives and sympathetic conservatived lie.

I think I just understood the maturity phases of the mind

Holy fuck.

1) confusion and primal objectives
2) rationality
3) systemic interrelationships

#3 still needs to be unpacked.

This is what I now need to advise my nephews and nieces.

I read through their website and that message doesn't align with anything on it