Saw Yuval Noah Harari interviewed by Kara Swisher at City Arts & Lectures in SF this evening. Good stuff, heavy talk about AI and humanity — like, if we’re so great why do we keep trying to kill ourselves off? And of course the seat came with Harari’s new book, Nexus, which I’m excited to crack into.

#CityArtsAndLectures #SF #AuthorTalks #AI

Matthew Desmond, author of #Poverty by America at #cityartsandlectures tonight. Lots of cheers after lots of eloquent talking points until he made a some guests uncomfortable equating SF NIMBYism with segregationism, and encouraged deregulation of #housing development in SF as a way to tear down walls of segregation rather than keeping them up and throwing money over them in the name of progressivism. I was one of the few audible cheers on that one.

#sanfrancisco #yimby

Still digesting last night’s SF City Arts & Lectures event with Werner Herzog. Some of what was covered I’ve read in recent interviews, but much of the evening’s conversation delivered rare insight and perspective from a deeply experienced working writer and filmmaker with a genuine curiosity of existence. Here he was discussing the perception of time and the performative nature of the human experience.

#WernerHerzog #conversation #CityArtsAndLectures #SF

OK, so you know you’ve reached a “certain age”’when you go to see a very well known writer speak …and you and the other audience members are what you’d think of — back in your 20s — as “your parent’s age.” #yikes #IWantToSpeakToTheManager #FML

(Seeing #FranLebowitz at the #SidneyGoldsteinTheater in #SF) #CityArtsAndLectures