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EdTech Maven, Intellectually Curious, Voracious Reader, Passionate Traveler, Budding Photographer/Artist & Ardent Fan of All Things Cognitive. #ART #PHOTOGRAPHY

Rochester, NY
Joined April 2009
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“I’m not being a big excessive spender. And I prefer my less-expensive way of life…. Who in the hell with my #wealth lives in the same house he built 70 years ago?” - Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman. Net Worth: $2.5B. He read ‘The Millionaire Next Door,’ @WSJ
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Felt #earthquake in #hafnarfjörður outside of #Reykjavík last night, Sunday evenjng, July 9. @ approx. 10:10pm.
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“ The point of college is to help students become independent humans who can choose the gods they serve and the rules they follow rather than allow someone else to choose for them.” Living Deliberately l Existential Despair via @NYTOpinion #education nytimes.com/2023/05/25/opini…
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“The idea that one would have to choose between #mathematics and #literature is something of a tragedy, as the two fields are inextricably, and fundamentally, linked. Understanding these links can enhance your enjoyment of both.” via @NYTOpinion. nytimes.com/2023/04/07/opini…
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#photography by @RobertMerlo "ChatGPT, a new chatbot from OpenAI is inspiring awe, fear, stunts and attempts to circumvent its guardrails." nyti.ms/3HxCzui Words: #chatgpt3 | @OpenAI #winter #forest #trees #moss #rocks #nature #aigeneratedpoetry #AIpoetry #AI #ethics
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'Winter #1' #art by @RobertMerlo "The world is blanketed in white As snowflakes dance and twirl in flight The air is crisp and still as ice As the winter winds begin to slice" Words: ChatGPT | @OpenAI #abstractart #abstractpainting #winter #nature #AIgeneratedpoetry #poetry
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“ […] you are going to draw a whole bunch of lessons about overcoming #challenges, #adversity, etc., and you don’t have to be that smart to join the dots to the same lessons that come in life.” - “Every problem has a solution.” #lifelessons via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2022/12/06/magaz…
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'Alien Flowers Triptych' #digitalart by @RobertMerlo | From #ROC #rochesterny "I consider each flower as I'm placing it, and it's not always the case that more is more."- Simone Gooch #art #abstractart #digitalartwork #digitalpainting #surrealart #flower #flowers #garden
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ˈLost in Translation' #art by @RobertMerlo “Mistakes can't be erased but they move you from your present position.” ― Richard Diebenkorn #abstractart #abstractpainting #abstractexpressionism #painting #messyart #artist #artisticprocess #artprocess #creativeflow #Creative
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ˈPossibilities' #art by @RobertMerlo “One doesn’t arrive — in words or in art — by necessarily knowing where one is going.” ― Richard Diebenkorn #abstractart #abstractpainting #abstractexpressionism #painting #messyart #artist #artisticprocess #artprocess #modernart
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'Genesis,' like many of my compositions, was first painted by hand using non-traditional, unconventional mediums, photographed with a @SonyAlpha mirrorless camera and then digitally enhanced with @Procreate and @Adobe @creativecloud. #art #artprocess #digitalart #DigitalArtist
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ˈGenesis' #art by @RobertMerlo “In every work of art something appears that does not previously exist, and so, by default, you work from what you know to what you don’t know.” ― Ann Hamilton #abstractart #abstractpainting #messyart #painting #uncertainty #theunknown #artist
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