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At a previous AI automation job, I found a deck so jaw-droppingly packed with incoherent HR jargon that I immediately copied it onto a flash drive.

And have used bits and pieces of that deck in writing every performance review and self-evaluation I've had to write in the past decade.

Trying to think of something to text Amanda to get her to prove she is not a bot.

Maybe I should send her a CAPTCHA.

Hey Amanda, can you recommend a place to eat in SFO?

Yankee Pier, she texts back immediately.

Too easy. I try again.

Anything else I should know? I ask her.

Get the…

I went to San Francisco then because I wished to live deliberately.

Too sincere. Too poor. Lasted only a few years.

But left with enough experience to land a string of higher-paying "comms" jobs at tech companies. So one could write in one's free time, one told oneself.

I showed Belan an early draft of the deck, maybe 90 slides, and he said "it's trying to get at something unimportant, but it's not there. I don't like all these little bits of unconnected trivia."

So I added 454 more slides.

More titles:

• Lexemic Lush Landscape
• Marks on a Street in Rome
• The Berlin of the Mind
• Our Own Yellow Brick Road
• Why_You_Should_Hate_AI_FINAL_v2

The deck is such a mixture of content and styles that I fear no one title will be able to capture it.

My plan for the deck is to use …