Life on the Road
Dear reader, you now find me back on my home continent, but not quite home yet. Instead I am nestled amid the many pleasures of Montreal. I decamped here from Sweden, after a conference in US and an indulgent weekend spent in New Bedford, being very normal about whales. ( Pro tip to future sabbatical-ers: while they still exist as such, get ivy league universities to pay for your trans-Atlantic travel, especially in a post-Hormuz era of jet fuel price hikes. Then use that coincidence of geography to embark on any literary pilgrimages that may be welling up inside you ). (I want everyone to know that whale captains had a sweet whale stamp they would use when their ships got a whale in their ship logs) There are many ways to explain why I'll be spending May in Montreal. There's a Civil Society & AI summit set happening in the middle of the month that I'm looking forward to joining, and which should be an interesting space to take the pulse of different Canadian constituen...