Sivori @sivori

Purveyor of half-baked ideas. Father of four. sivori.substack.com Austin, TX Joined May 2007

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Sivori @sivori

7 hours ago

Generative AI will be used to create personalized advertisements, just like you see in every dystopian film / book. Ads that call your phone and try to talk to you about how your dead father would have wanted you to take that trip to Scotland like you both talked about and how…

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8 hours ago

You may not believe in God. But what will you do if God decides to believe in You?

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14 hours ago

The thing they don’t tell you about being the tooth fairy or Santa Claus is that children sleep really deeply. Trivial to place something under their pillows. I can usually even move them around if they fall asleep in weird positions to tuck them back under their covers.…

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I picked up a second-hand copy of Ulysses recently, with an inscription that's kinda broken my heart. I wish it was still with the original owner.

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16 hours ago

Life pro-tip: “if it floats, flies or fornicates, rent it”. Said another way, the big things we buy for fun are products of the imagination. We are buying a STORY. We rarely get the expected utility from the things we buy for fun. When we buy a boat, we are buying a story…

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17 hours ago

People worry a lot about being awkward and becoming embarrassed. Perhaps you should worry more about never putting yourself in a position where you could be embarrassed. Don’t play it safe. There’s no real risk.

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19 hours ago

My eldest daughter’s first communion this morning. An occasion for feeling and reflection. A proud and poignant moment for a father as I see that each step and each sacrament will lead beyond to her eventual marriage.

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21 hours ago

Several years ago now, I was sitting on my back deck, listening to sirens late on a Sunday night. I found out a couple days later that there had been a house fire nearby and that a boy in my son’s kindergarten class had died in the fire. He had been living with his grandmother…