Success In Things That Don't Matter

At some fairly deluded and immature point in my young life I can recall just wanting to be as cool as the movie star Robert Mitchum. All those tough and moody film noir roles must have gotten to me. A truly vague, formless and ridiculous ambition for someone of my stature and background. But there you go, the odd things and ideas that we pass through, leaving curious little sets of memory to be savored or sometimes only a bad taste and a slight shiver of discomfort. 

Now we are slowly sinking into AI's cosmic soup and the self inflicted but unintended consequences of it all, part of a generational misstep where our mobile phones continue to know more about us than our families and friends do.