Category: Basic Training

Depending on your occupation (teachers either like it or hate it), demographic (OK, Boomer!), or financial strategy (Nvidia investors), Artificial Intelligence (Ai or AI) can be scary or exciting. I’m on the fence about whether Ai is good or bad (probably both) and use it occasionally for idea-generation and images for this blog, so I was intrigued when I recently read that Time Magazine named Ai the ‘Person of the Year.’  Ai as a ‘person.’ WHAT??? Digging deeper (as we should for anything we see in media these days), Time actually named the “Architects of AI” as ‘Person of the Year’ and has used two images for the cover of the magazine (Yes, it’s still in print!). One shows current tech leaders, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and a few others, sitting on the steel beam resembling the iconic

As I begin concluding my case for Better Male Friendships, I want to encourage wives to support their husbands and his male friends. Over the years, I’ve seen too many guys feel guilty (or made to feel bad) for taking time away from their families to be with friends. However, I actually believe that most wives want their husbands to have better friendships. This post supports my theory that spending time with high-quality men helps us become better husbands, fathers, and men. Men Need Male Friends Throughout this series, I’ve written about the epidemic of loneliness, especially among men. Some guys say they have a few really good friends, but statistics show most have none. Recent studies show that 57% of men report feeling lonely. Another shows 15% of men claim to have no close friends at all. Yes, that’s right, no one knows them well enough to know when