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Episode 01/06/2026
01/06/2026
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The show's motto is unmistakable: RICHLY IS GOODLY!
Please consider how you define the term good as we journey through life together in your pursuit of defining the term richly in your life.
Today, we begin our study of two terms that are used today more as sources of laughter than as parts of meaningful communication to help prevent harm from occurring in the first place. We then move to consider the terms by the first principle to living life more richly. Finally, we will consider how to prevent damage from being inflicted on my intended audience by considering the status of implementing artificial intelligence today in the lives of as many people as possible.
All definitions presented on the show are resident in the public domain as public knowledge, so there is nothing proprietary contained within these definitions.
I urge you to review the definitions presented in the previous episodes as you consider the two terms I present to you now.
I spoke of the terms prejudice and bias three weeks ago. I did not present them to you then. I will speak both terms now.
The term prejudice is a singular term. It is a noun. A noun states an attribute of a person, place, thing, or idea. Prejudice is defined as an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
The term bias is a singular term. It is a noun. Prejudice is defined as a particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned.
Let's take prejudice and bias through worldview, ethics, morality, and virtue to see how things stack up with reasoning.
WORLDVIEW:
We know that worldview is the totality of what a person believes.
Prejudice literally scares me. I have experienced personally more forms of prejudice than I care to count. Prejudice is a filthy and disgusting concept.
Bias is no better than prejudice. It is worse than prejudice. Bias happens more easily than prejudice. Bias is a filthy and disgusting concept.
These statements are a part of my worldview.
ETHICS:
We know ethics is the totality of what a person does based on the totality of what a person believes.
It is impossible to plant beans and grow corn.
Conducting prejudice brings no form of either riches or good. Living life with the constant look over the shoulder to learn if one has been caught performing prejudice is no way to live richly.
Bias can be seen inwardly more than outwardly. The rolling of eyes and shrugging of shoulders is a person who is trying to dismiss their known bias in interpreting facts. It is clear evidence of deception.
If the desire is to live life more richly, then neither prejudice nor bias will help fulfill such a desire.
Planting the actions of honesty and fairness will help fulfill the desire to live life more richly.
MORALITY:
We know morality is the totality of what a person believes should happen, both in their lives and the lives of all humanity, based on the totality of what a person believes.
Prejudice says the rest of the world does not matter when I have what I want. Prejudice says I am willing to walk over people to get what I want. Covering such actions in the form of morality is not a new behavior. Such actions do not help a person live life more richly. Such actions start a countdown clock ticking for the time when those who were walked on can return to such a person the same actions that were delivered to the offended. I am describing the terms of justice and renege that were presented last week. I encourage you to listen to that episode for a better context of how both prejudice and bias destroy justice through the renege activity.
Bias is a sliver of prejudice. A simple turning of the head to not see an action, the omission of paperwork to cover connecting the pieces of a topic, submitting false data in a report, and endless other similar actions are examples of bias destroying the desire to live life more richly. If receiving payback for bias is not in your list of wants, then not being biased is the way to stop such payback from ever coming to you.
VIRTUE:
We know virtue is the set of items at the top of a person's morality list.
A list that says either prejudice or bias must ever occur is a hideous thought. It is an indefensible position when examined by reason. I cannot find a single dictator, monarch, emperor, empress, or bully who declared publicly that they hold either prejudice or bias as a virtue. They each simply did them without saying they did them, avoided accountability for doing them, and all perished into the part of history that is viewed as evil for doing them.
Personally, I do not like virtues. A virtue says I must face reality that I can only do so much in life. The thought of only sharing part of my beliefs means it is possible to be misunderstood. The better action, in my worldview, is to communicate my position on what is The Truth. The rest of ethics, morality, and virtue fall in place easily from there.
But that is me.
How about you?
The first principle I have found as paramount, undeniable, and non-negotiable to living life more richly...
is...
Principle 1:
Understand Your Data Lifecycle
Understanding Your Data Lifecycle
I have been deep in computers since January 1989. Deep, as in education, and paid to do things with computers. The birth of the graphical Internet occurred in 1995. Before then, things were black screens with white letters without a graphical user interface. Data was moving between computers on different networks, but not as robustly as we know today.
The push in the late 1990s was to first establish web sites, then look to exchange data between web sites. All things moved quickly. There was little to no analytics happening with the data then. We did the data analytics work in a spreadsheet, a database, or both. The economic crash of the first Internet wave began in June 2000. It all crashed in September 2001. Things with business and national economies realigned in spring 2005.
Check the Internet for the simplified story of the Enron Corporation bankruptcy of 2001 to better understand the conditions in the early 2000s timeframe.
The second wave of the Internet economic crash occurred in September 2008. Things with businesses and national economies realigned in spring 2011.
Check the Internet for the Bernard Lawrence Madoff conviction in 2009 for fraud and related charges to better understand the conditions in the early 2000s timeframe.
The good news about the global pandemic is that all that was not solid on the Internet became solid by the middle of 2021. Solid, as in robust web sites and meaningful analytics of data. Remote work became sustainable by way of technology enablement.
We as humanity are at the point now where the promises of artificial intelligence are automating processes and delivering information that is readily available in polished packages of web sites and software applications. We are also at a point where the next economic crash of the Internet wave has begun.
News came out in November 2025 that another 1.5 trillion US Dollars are necessary to arrive at the point of artificial intelligence being feasible enough to deliver added benefits beyond the two that I have stated already. This amount is only for funding artificial intelligence development efforts within the United States. This news caused many investors to decide that artificial intelligence today is too much of a monetary risk, moving them to sell their interests in artificial intelligence, causing a decrease in artificial intelligence technology valuations, and putting a significant kink into the cash flow of the outfits working to build artificial intelligence technologies.
Now, let's consider prejudice and bias with artificial intelligence. I have said repeatedly in past episodes that the means for the financial investor to grow their investment returns is by connecting with the homemaker, and that both skilled and service workers would do well to become master users of robotics that use artificial intelligence to increase their incomes. Things look pretty simple for all involved from this distilled suggestion.
Keeping prejudice out of the picture becomes the challenge. If everyone wants to get money into their pocket, then it is easy to disregard the objective review of data by taking on more risks with the hope all things will somehow work out well in the end. Prejudice is prejudice, period.
Things get worse when bias is combined with prejudice. Mixing an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason with a particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned, results in a toxic combination. Toxic, as in more than painful but deadly.
So, how does one keep from being harmed by the next economic crash of the Internet wave? Simple. Understand Your Data Lifecycle. How does one understand their data lifecycle? Simple. Keep all prejudiced and biased thoughts, words, and feelings as far away from you as possible. The lure of artificial intelligence is strong. I know. I work with artificial intelligence models by way of customers who have signed contracts with me to help them mature their artificial intelligence models. It is possible to remain as far away from you as possible both prejudiced and biased thoughts, words, and feelings. It is not easy, but it is possible.
Here is my suggestion, not recommendation, but suggestion to you about how you can remain as far away as possible from both prejudiced and biased thoughts, words, and feelings. If you have to go into one penny of debt to get the benefit of artificial intelligence, then it is too risky a debt. Only spend the money you can afford to lose on artificial intelligence. There are plenty of free options available today to learn and use artificial intelligence.
The debt markets that want to ride the economic wave of building data centers and funding startup companies have the same risks as they have had since the day the world began. The debt markets would do well to use the first principle I have found as paramount, undeniable, and non-negotiable to living life more richly: Understand Your Data Lifecycle. If the data is too complicated for you to understand, well, good news. You just found the evidence of what is called unbearable risk. Move on and work on other efforts.
Meanwhile, spend some of your time this week searching for and reading some of the news articles on the Internet about how Sam Altman with OpenAI has been scrambling to handle since early November 2025, the way the third version of Google's artificial intelligence called Gemini has put OpenAI into the likelihood of experiencing a slow-motion catastrophic end to the OpenAI business entity. The OpenAI investors are sweating risk pains at almost the same level as Altman.
Living life more richly does not include the pain you will read Altman and OpenAI investors are experiencing today. I hope that your listening to The Richly or Poorly Show will help you experience RICHLY IS GOODLY by informing you of ways to connect with viable plans for you to live life more richly by helping you keep both prejudice and bias out of your life.
Well, that's it for today.
RICHLY IS GOODLY!
Are you understanding more about the terms richly and goodly in your life and how you want to apply them in your life?
Please consider all you have heard from me today.
I hope you are excited about how you can apply the material I present to you on the show to your life, so you can live your life more richly than you have ever known!
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Thank you for joining me for this episode of The Richly or Poorly Show!
I have enjoyed presenting to you today.
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