Carrie Bickner

Most of the time, I think people write better copy than chatbots-except when it comes to Veil Smart Toilet marketing material.

#datagoverance

Marco Rubio is now acting archivist of the United States.

Did this come to you as a complete thought?

Yes! There’s something luxurious about this time—I’m finally getting to know myself.

It’s strange to feel so together internally while everything external is falling apart. But honestly, I’d rather have it this way than the other way around.

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Part of The Gates, a 23-mile visual extravaganza that turned Central Park orange and helped New Yorkers like us begin to recover emotionally from Sept. 11, 2001. Photo ℅ the Central Park Conservancy.

It was our newborn’s first experience of public art, and she loved it.

After 20 years, Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s sprawling, saffron-hued masterpiece “The Gates” is returning to Central Park, albeit in AR form.

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Monetizing the Grind: A Thought Piece for LinkedIn I find myself back on LinkedIn after fifteen years away from the job market. At first, I thought it would be like returning to any other job-seeking site—a straightforward tool for applications and…

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A good brand isn’t just a polished performance. A good brand is vulnerability plus time. And until LinkedIn figures that out, we’ll all just be background dancers in someone else’s production. #linkedin #personalbrand

That is beautiful.

Forgiveness Means Embracing the Unknown I always thought forgiveness required readiness—a sense of resolution or peace. I imagined it would arrive like the prelude to a song, a subtle shift in the atmosphere signaling it was time. But fo…

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#forgiveness

I always thought forgiveness required readiness—a sense of resolution or peace. I imagined it would arrive like the prelude to a song. But forgiveness isn’t about a particular clarity or serenity. I forgave, not because I felt it, but because I needed to.

My Father’s House Six months ago, I returned to my hometown. My lease in New York City had expired, and while I had made significant progress with PTSD, the clamor and stress of the city had become too much for me. …

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When you know violence intimately, & it doesn’t destroy you, it deepens the way you understand and experience love, joy, respect, & integrity. They are no longer abstract concepts or fleeting feelings. They become profound, tangible, & accessible truths. Because I had known harm…

More Than This My first real boyfriend was like a brass band. There was a rhythm to him, a forward-driving energy, like he was propelled by the thump of a drumline and guided by the sweep of a trombone. He moved …

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Dialogues on Generative AI: Essential and Accidental Features Introduction: The Frustration and the Fear Picture this: You’re working with a chatbot, feeding it an essay for feedback. The response is fascinating—half insight, half noise. You tweak the prompt,…

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Picture this: You’re working with a chatbot, feeding it an essay for feedback. The response is fascinating—half insight, half noise. You tweak the prompt, try again, and the whole process feels like a maddening cycle of reinvention. Ideas get lost. Decisions go undocumented. Frustration builds. #ai

My first real boyfriend was like a brass band.
There was a rhythm to him, a forward-driving energy, like he was propelled by the thump of a drumline and guided by the sweep of a trombone. He moved with purpose, his momentum commanding attention. He made you wonder where he was going… #firstlove

That sounds like heaven. I had a job on a circulating desk at my undergraduate library, long before I became a librarian. It was a blast.

I know better, but I kinda want to open a bookshop. #indeoendentbookshops #indebooksellers

Dialogic Creation: A Methodology for Making Things With Generative AI Generative AI is more than just a productivity tool—it’s a collaborator, capable of revealing new dimensions of human potential. But the real question isn’t what AI can do; it’s how we work with it…

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Generative AI is more than just a productivity tool—it’s a collaborator, capable of revealing new dimensions of human potential. But the real question isn’t what AI can do; it’s how we work with it. DC is a way of turning AI into an active partner in a structured, iterative process. #ai

The Guide in the Passenger Seat I moved back to the Detroit area recently, and my work brought me to Warren, Michigan. It’s a route I’ve come to know well—a drive my father once took every day during his decades at Campbell-Ewald…

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The Embodiment of Love When my dad died, we didn’t need many words. Our last conversation, over Zoom, was brief, almost elemental. I love you, I said, and he said it back. In that moment, years of estrangement were bridg…

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When my dad died, we didn’t need many words. Our last conversation, over Zoom, was brief, almost elemental. I love you, I said, and he said it back. In that moment, years of estrangement were bridged. #grief #imissmydad

Yes. One of the things I have been doing is stopping periodically, summarizing or indexing progress so that I create documentation as I go. This manual way of denoting iterations is not ideal, but it does help. It’s a way of organizing or marking up the chat so you can review later.

Not so ancient.

I totally understand where you are coming from. I feel the pull to explore what “the work” will be in a world with AI.