Great article, Paul! I've never had the fortune to go to Caroline's. But I think the way you wrote about it is so intuitive and well-written. It's so sad that an institution that means so much and brought so many people together is closing. Thank you for sharing your story. I also didn't know that is where you first met Stacey, so that is even more special...
Solid post, Paul. I had no idea you knew Stuart Sheldon, who forwarded me this post. I assume Carolines just couldn't make rent? So sad... had a blast every time I was there, whether onstage or in the crowd. Happy Holidays... and stay connected!
Bummed about this. I spent a good portion of high school and later years gojng to Caroline's. Saw so many awesome acts. Artie Lange, Vladimir Caamano, Bill Burr, etc. A true legend of a place.
I am so sad to hear this. As a nation and as a human race we are on a dangerous path to isolation. Even more dangerous is thinking the technology surrogates for human connection are in fact a substitution for physical person-to-person connections. We need to physically interact with people, even if we are introverts. We need to laugh. While we have become comfortable with our comfort and convenience of staying at home, we need to become comfortable with being uncomfortable - it is the only way to change this dangerous trajectory.
I'm going to create an avatar that, on my behalf, performs comedy written by ChatGPT in a Metaverse-based comedy club. That's what connection looks like in the future.
Letting ChatGPT do everything for us will be the beginning of the end. We will become dumber and dumber. What I don't understand is our insatiable need for convenience and for things to be easier. Are automatic windows really easier than rolling up a window? What makes us a dominant species is our ability to do hard. Letting something or someone do things for us makes us soft and we will lose the ability to think. Like the movie Wall-E, if you don't use a muscle, it atrophies. All through my undergraduate in Aerospace Engineering and my MBA I used a basic calculator and did everything by hand instead of using programs. My finance professor at Harvard gave us the option on the final, knowing if we did calculations by hand we would not be able to run as many scenarios, but we would really know how to solve the problems. I chose to do the calcs by hand and as a result I see strategic connections and risks that many don't see in their spreadsheets. Read the book, "Range: Why Generalists Dominate in a World of Specialists", and see why...
Great article, Paul! I've never had the fortune to go to Caroline's. But I think the way you wrote about it is so intuitive and well-written. It's so sad that an institution that means so much and brought so many people together is closing. Thank you for sharing your story. I also didn't know that is where you first met Stacey, so that is even more special...
Solid post, Paul. I had no idea you knew Stuart Sheldon, who forwarded me this post. I assume Carolines just couldn't make rent? So sad... had a blast every time I was there, whether onstage or in the crowd. Happy Holidays... and stay connected!
Bummed about this. I spent a good portion of high school and later years gojng to Caroline's. Saw so many awesome acts. Artie Lange, Vladimir Caamano, Bill Burr, etc. A true legend of a place.
As always, you've said it well and with insight.
I am so sad to hear this. As a nation and as a human race we are on a dangerous path to isolation. Even more dangerous is thinking the technology surrogates for human connection are in fact a substitution for physical person-to-person connections. We need to physically interact with people, even if we are introverts. We need to laugh. While we have become comfortable with our comfort and convenience of staying at home, we need to become comfortable with being uncomfortable - it is the only way to change this dangerous trajectory.
I'm going to create an avatar that, on my behalf, performs comedy written by ChatGPT in a Metaverse-based comedy club. That's what connection looks like in the future.
Letting ChatGPT do everything for us will be the beginning of the end. We will become dumber and dumber. What I don't understand is our insatiable need for convenience and for things to be easier. Are automatic windows really easier than rolling up a window? What makes us a dominant species is our ability to do hard. Letting something or someone do things for us makes us soft and we will lose the ability to think. Like the movie Wall-E, if you don't use a muscle, it atrophies. All through my undergraduate in Aerospace Engineering and my MBA I used a basic calculator and did everything by hand instead of using programs. My finance professor at Harvard gave us the option on the final, knowing if we did calculations by hand we would not be able to run as many scenarios, but we would really know how to solve the problems. I chose to do the calcs by hand and as a result I see strategic connections and risks that many don't see in their spreadsheets. Read the book, "Range: Why Generalists Dominate in a World of Specialists", and see why...