Mar 10, 2023Responding to Generative AI — Richard BakareThe headlines are rife with Artificial Intelligence updates. Some of the articles spell out concerns and fears. Justified concerns if you have ever seen any number of films set in a dystopian future. Others celebrate our inevitable march towards an all knowing Artificial Intelligence (AI). Most miss the nuance of…5 min read5 min read
Sep 30, 2022Radioactive People — Richard BakareFox News made space for the C and D students to feel welcome. W Bush spoke their anti-intellectualist dialect. The Orange Clown made it fashionable to just be dumb and proud. And now, we are left with Radioactive People everywhere. In our halls of Congress, Doctor’s Offices, PTA meetings, Podcasts…Radioactive3 min readRadioactive3 min read
Sep 13, 2022Recession Proof & Reparations — Richard BakareFor Generation Z the word Recession must elicit the same response as Groundhog Day. All this recent talk about dour economic head winds has me frustrated at the repetition of mistakes and government inaction to introduce policies that could strengthen our safety nets when slow downs arrive. The pundits break…Richard Bakare3 min readRichard Bakare3 min read
Aug 4, 2022Labor Party — Richard BakareIf there is one thing the political gridlock and divisiveness have shown me is that we need a third way. Maybe even a fourth, a fifth; simply put more options . The dissatisfied must come together to launch a competitive national third party. A coalition to break up the malaise…4 min read4 min read
Jun 30, 2022B-Corps — Richard BakareI’ve been working for as long as I can remember. The weekends cutting yards around the neighborhood. That first job with a uniform and name tag. The job after college that came with benefits and a salary. To some degree, they’ve all been spin offs of the capitalist corporate hegemony…3 min read3 min read
May 30, 2022Parental Leave — Richard BakareI don’t know how our parents did it before us. They toughed it out, but they should not have had to. As of 2022, it was not unheard of to hear that progressive US based companies were providing 6-months of 100% paid leave to employees. The generous time off uniformly…3 min read3 min read
May 3, 2022Dinner for Eight — Richard BakareNear the middle of the summer of 2021, I sat down to dinner with most of my team at work. There were exactly eight of us. The flow of the conversation and evening went perfectly. I started thinking to myself is 8 the magic number for a dinner party? Especially…3 min read3 min read
Mar 31, 2022Banned Books — Richard BakareMy parents taught us to read before we started school. Pizza Hut ran promotions that got us to read more in exchange for slices. Reading Rainbow helped us explore new genres and share the reading experience at scale. Our dedicated, but under appreciated, teachers guided us towards finding deeper meaning…3 min read3 min read
Feb 28, 2022Eudaemonia Machine — Richard Bakare“Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.” - Eckhart Tollle Eudaemonia noun: A person’s state of excellence characterized by objective flourishing across a lifetime, and brought about through the exercise of moral virtue, practical wisdom, and rationality. I took on a long delayed challenge and wrote a…5 min read5 min read
Jan 31, 2022Technological Ghosts — Richard Bakare“I’m not real. I’m just like you. You don’t exist in this society. If you did, your people wouldn’t be seeking equal rights. You’re not real… so we’re both myths… I come to you as the myth.” — Sun-Ra We are all creating the digital ghosts of ourselves that will…4 min read4 min read