To stop believing in the nobility of the mission was a perilous road to go down. One full of questions whose answers you didn’t want to hear.
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How do we all have such a poor understanding of something that has such a strong impact on our lives?
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The crux of the issue is this: Spotify offers artists a chance to boost their music in the algorithm that decides when and how frequently listeners encounter them in Spoitify’s radio and autoplay features. At first glance this may seem like no big deal.
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One of the many whiteboards hanging from the walls of our headquarters bore these words; I know not who penned them, but I reflect on them often:
“The enemy has neither body armor, nor Powerpoint; so they will always be faster.”
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It occurred to me almost immediately that “JESUS, I just let this man shoot a LASER in my eye.”
I chased that thought away, and reminded myself that he could still be an excellent doctor and also believe in things that I don’t, or even things that are demonstrably false.
The stress that had accumulated over three days of worrying over my situation was instantly dispelled. I’d managed to find someone like me, and he’d promised to help. I breathed a sigh of relief. I would have hugged him if not for the 3 ft of counter (and bulletproof glass) between us.
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I approached the counter, stated my name and that a transfer had been initiated for me. They asked for identification. I opened my laptop and spun it around on the counter, to show the image of my face from 7 years ago, and hoped they wouldn’t notice the expiration date.
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Fortunately, I had left my laptop in my bag at the hostel. This was my only connection to the world. I made a post on Facebook about what happened, and the hopelessness of my situation (no money, no passport, no cards) partially to see if someone could help, but primarily to make a joke about it, and let’s be honest it’s Facebook: I wanted to get some ‘likes’.
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The night was clear enough to see stars despite the intermittent bolts of lightning, and light rain which tumbled through the trees. THIS was my Pura Vida moment. I would surely buy a t-shirt at the airport when all this was over.
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"…when we're scared about things that seem dangerous AND confusing, we want an authority on the topic to explain, instruct and reassure us.”
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Like all great artistic ventures, mine started in the US Army.
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