{"id":243997,"date":"2026-09-13T09:02:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T14:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/make-the-%f0%9f%91%8c-sign-at-a-stranger"},"modified":"2026-09-13T09:02:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T14:02:42","slug":"make-the-%f0%9f%91%8c-sign-at-a-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/make-the-%f0%9f%91%8c-sign-at-a-stranger","title":{"rendered":"Make the \ud83d\udc4c sign at a stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/make-the-f09f918c-sign-at-a-stranger.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In parts of the world, you just called him an ass.<\/p>\n<p>Same gesture. Same content. Opposite meaning.<\/p>\n<p>I built a five-minute keynote around that gap because it quietly decides almost everything we fight about.<\/p>\n<p>Why two people can look at the same war, the same election, the same climate data, and honestly see opposite things.<\/p>\n<p>Why 200 pieces of worthless thrift store junk suddenly sold for many times their price after 200 strangers each did one small thing to them. Nothing was added. Nothing was repaired.<\/p>\n<p>Why your brain is not the content machine you think it is, and what it was actually built to do.<\/p>\n<p>Why #AI has all the data and still needs us, and what exactly it is borrowing every time you write a prompt.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/make-the-%f0%9f%91%8c-sign-at-a-stranger\">Continue reading \u201cMake the \ud83d\udc4c sign at a stranger\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In parts of the world, you just called him an ass. Same gesture. Same content. Opposite meaning. I built a five-minute keynote around that gap because it quietly decides almost everything we fight about. Why two people can look at the same war, the same election, the same climate data, and honestly see opposite things. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}