It’s been a moment…
Let me start by saying, I just don’t say enough. Allow me to reintroduce myself, my name is Bill. I live with my family on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. The summer in Alaska inspires a solid vocabulary flex in all of the best ways. Winter’s gives you a lot of time to get really good at whatever you want to get really good at.
Alaska’s extreme cold, partnered with a whole lotta darkness have colluded to make indoor sports like basketball, wrestling and more recently mixed martial arts have provided opportunities for athletes outside of Alaska.
I’ll have more on this topic later, I needed to get something posted for no other reason than I need to post.
2022 is an election year in Alaska, there is a lot at stake for a lot of folks. Hopefully, we’ll hear from some of them.
ONYX live in Anchorage
Hey friends, Bill here and I’d like to talk about next weekend’s Onyx concert in Anchorage. I’ll start by saying there are a ton of good reasons to check it out and here are a few. As group, Onyx have been one of the most durable in music, starting with the sonic boom of slam, and it’s subsequent remix with Biohazard influenced the creation of one the finest soundtrack albums of all time Judgment Night. By the way, the judgement night soundtrack is it’s own conversation, the soundtrack includes collaborations between De La Soul and Teenage Fanclub, Pearl Jam and Cypress Hill (at the time the two biggest acts in the world) the soundtrack itself leads to bands like the Gorillaz. More importantly, it still holds up
Back to Onyx, 1995 is arguably one the very best best years for rap music. With releases like Raekwon’s Cuban Links aka The Purple Tape, GZA’s Liquid Swords, 2Pac’s Me Against The World and many many more. In that year Onxy released All We Got Iz Us, personally one of my very favorite albums of all time. It’s perfect winter driving music. Their catalog is filled with grimy classics and their newer records with international production crews Snowgoons and Crack Brodas have done a really good job of bringing us back to their live show. I’m going to include a link to their show in St. Petersburg, Russia for reference… This is going to be a concert, don’t wear your nice shoes. There may or may not be a mosh pit. And Get the Pizza
None of us are essential…
Prepare yourselves, the day of the robot employee is coming. As rapidly as robots evolve, the idea of what constitutes an employee evolves as well. Consider Marty The Grocery Store Robot, a robotic grocery store assistant know to Stop and Shop (a grocery chain located in the North East United States) customers in the lower. For the time being, Marty is known primarily for being a nuisance to both customers and employees of the company, I believe that will change soon. If there are lessons to be learned from the COVID pandemic and their ensuing lockdowns, one might be employee maintenance. As we’ve seen over the last 18 months, brick and mortar retailers (we’ll include fast food), have been deemed as essential and as such so have their employees. Oftentimes, these are also the very first employees to get sick as well. One of the long term, trickle down effects is the labor shortage we’re currently experiencing around the world.
Robotics will effect every career field, consider these two regular human occupations, both of which are being replaced by robotics.
I have spoken to a few business owners, some believe robotic employees would solve many of their regular labor issues. For instance, the owner of a local auto body shop might pay three people over $150,000 + benefits collectively, to ensure a good paint job consistently. That same owner might see the value in a substantially more costly robotic painter that never gets sick and never makes mistakes. Maybe, the robot is quicker and provides faster service to more customers, recouping the shop owner’s initial investment faster.
How long will McDonalds pay $15 an hour to flip Big Macs? Chains like White Castle and CaliBurger haver already begun transitioning to robots.
What does the future look like for you, where do you sit in what is certainly coming? What do you want to do? What do you look like in five years? You can be a completely different person, the robots are coming for you “job” and none of us are essential.
In the future, I would like to address the potentiality of robotics in the realm of Law Enforcement. That’s a fun conversation Until then, here is a video of a robot dog dancing.
What is wrong with us
This doesn’t seem like a me problem anymore. I used to keep myself up at night, hating myself. I still do from time to time, I’m not sure I will ever not hate myself and statistically speaking I’m definitely not alone. Across the board, folks seem to have a strong dislike for their meat suits. And what are we (you, me and the rest of us) going to do about it?
Our lives are art, we are the painters, sculptors and musicians of our own lives. Every breath is song, every movement a dance led by the music of our still beating hearts. But we are dying, killing ourselves everyday by ingesting the same poisons that keep us up, waiting to die while wishing we could have made better decisions. In the meantime, the opportunity to change the songs direction, movement and melodies disappear faster than the original thoughts of movement. Now we’re stuck, do we move or accept the moment has passed? It’s up to you, if you don’t start now, when will you start? Good morning from Alaska, it’s 0505, have a great day!
Smile, none of this is real.
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We’re just getting started, what are you doing?