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Published September 11, 2015 https://www.elitedaily.com/life/purest-love-after-9-11/1209324

When we are children, hope feels natural. It is not something we learn or practice. It simply lives inside us.Our dreams feel possible. Our kindness feels obvious. Our belief that we can make a difference in the world feels unquestioned. Then life happens. We grow older.We experience disappointment.We witness pain.Sometimes we hurt others. Sometimes others hurt us.We see injustice. We see suffering. We see the complexity of the world. And at some point we begin to ask ourselv

I have always been an optimist. Attuned. Someone who believed that progress, while slow, moved forward. Lately, I feel something else entirely. What we are witnessing right now is not new, but it is newly unmasked. Power no longer bothers to hide. Violence, exploitation, and domination are no longer whispered or obscured. They are in full view, without shame, without consequence, and often without even the courtesy of a faux explanation. History tells us how we arrived here n

I work in ideas, and I take responsibility for where they lead. I’ve been writing, publishing, and developing ideas long before AI existed. Since I was seven, really. I’m grateful that proof of my thinking and self-concept exists in the world from before this moment, because it reminds me that a human point of view earned over time cannot be faked. It’s not that tools are unimportant. I was here when we moved from typewriters, to word processors, to computers. And thankfully,

I was seven years old when I first saw what I now understand as my life’s work. In my mind’s eye, I stood barefoot on a beach, the air warm and bright. All around me were children, every color and every culture, hand in hand, laughing as one tide touched all our feet. There was no hierarchy. No race against time. Only connection. Only light. ​ That vision never left me. It became the quiet pulse beneath everything I have done, in law, in art, in business, in love. A constant

Every generation builds something. Ours is building intelligence and we’re in the process of choosing what kind. Before the code, before the breakthroughs, before the fear and the hope, there is a simple truth: we are deciding who we want to be. Intelligence isn’t just a technology. It’s a value system. Whatever we build right now will mirror us, our courage, our blind spots, our empathy, and our neglect. We’re engineering power, and power always, or should always, asks a hum

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