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The Colorado Plateau: Canyonlands
Canyonlands is a vast and vastly underrated National Park. While it doesn’t have as many iconic sights and trails like its next-door neighbor Arches, it is one of those parks, like the…
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The Colorado Plateau: Arches
Arches is perhaps the most appropriately named National Park in the United States given that it is home to dozens and dozens of natural arches. The natural arch is a bewildering phenomenon…
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The Colorado Plateau: Mesa Verde
I visited Mesa Verde National Park on a gloomy and drizzly day as the weather took an unfortunate turn from the glorious early autumn of the day before. As I drove up…
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The Colorado Plateau: The Black Canyon
In a last-minute decision, I recently decided to adventure out west again and visit a few national parks on the Colorado Plateau. I had originally planned to visit Italy as I have…
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Food and Memory
On every visit to Istanbul, I make time to have Iskender kebap at Han Restaurant. A simple but decadent concept with origins dating back to the late 19th century, the kebap is…
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Consistency is a challenge in AI
A big source of concern around AI in business applications revolves around trust. Can you trust AI to give you the right answer; or will you be constantly worrying about hallucinations? This…
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AI’s advanced models are bad business
The general atmosphere around AI has become much more alarmist over the past couple of months. With news of rogue AI agents escaping into the wild to wreak havoc or Anthropic claiming…
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Reflecting on Istanbul. And Life.
Istanbul is massive, almost overwhelmingly so. One of the world’s megacities, it is a frenetic place, without a single center of gravity but instead, like an octopus and its ganglia, distributing its…
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Albania and Identity
Here’s a bit of trivia: my great great grandfather, Mehmet Deralla, was the first Minister of War of the first Government of Albania, created toward the end of 1912. It’s a bit…
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Leros and the Art of Sitting
Life is fast. If ever there was a truism that captures the reality of our modern existence, this is the one. Life is fast, it is hectic, it is so much to…
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All Creatures Great and Small
Earlier this week I saved a bluebird nestling. I came home one day to see a small ball-shaped something on my driveway. On closer inspection, I saw that it was breathing and…
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A Journey to the West: Part Ten
Do I owe whatever success I have had in professional life to the unifying power and cultural relevancy of sport? Almost certainly, given that my essay for my college application covered my…
