I’ve been writing a lot this year but have been neglecting my own blog here on Lucky7. Most of my writing has been at the data.world blog and on my Medium account. I’ve been primarily writing about AI as 2023 will no doubt go down as the year AI went mainstream, and for good reason (the productivity lift is now completely obvious). data.world couldn’t be better positioned for it either, and I can’t quite describe how exciting that has been as our CEO and Co-founder.

Today I turn my attention towards my post popular post of the year, which is on a sad subject. As a Jew, 10/7 was extremely disturbing to me. For humanitarians everywhere, it should have been as well. But then following 10/7 we saw something I haven’t seen in my lifetime. I wrote the following essay on it and published it initially on Medium on 11/7, the one-month anniversary of the horror of 10/7. And then on 11/9, the inverse of 9/11, I published a shorter form of it for the more time-constrained or younger reader. I’ve chosen to only include the full essay below.

But, first, let me say what was on my mind yesterday during Thanksgiving. There have been only leaders that have come forth since I published with extraordinarily clear moral convinction and no use of the word “but”. So, yesterday, I was thinking of the gratitude I have for Mayor Eric Adams of NYC, Congressman Ritchie Torres of the Bronx, and Einat Wilf, who used to serve in the Knesset in Israel and also as as a Foreign Policy Advisor to Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Here are three speeches from them that you should really watch to feel that same gratitude that I have for them: