Yeah, it’s me. Steve Goodman.
Retired, mostly. I write here about music, guitars, books, photography, AI experiments, and whatever else pulls my attention that week. No agenda, no niche, no newsletter.
Recent Posts
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The Universe Is Stranger Than We Think, and I Love It
Here is a thing that is simply true: right now, in the room where you’re sitting, there are particles that have no definite position until they’re observed. There are subatomic events happening that have no cause in the classical sense. There are fluctuations in empty space that spontaneously produce and annihilate pairs of particles in…
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On Being Someone’s Person: Notes from the Caregiver’s Life
My mom has a word for what I am to her. She calls me her person. As in: “You’re my person.” She says it matter-of-factly, the way you’d say “this is my house” or “this is my coffee.” It’s a statement of orientation. You’re the one I call. You’re the one who knows. You’re the…
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What Getting a Stent Taught Me About Listening to My Body
I want to tell you how I ended up in a hospital gown at six in the morning with someone running a catheter through my wrist to place a stent in a cardiac artery — not because it’s dramatic, but because the most useful part of the story isn’t the procedure. It’s the weeks before…
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The Movies That Rewired My Brain
The first time I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey, I was probably too young, I understood maybe a third of it, and I couldn’t stop thinking about it for a week. That’s the test I use now for a certain kind of film — not whether I liked it, not whether it was enjoyable in…
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Living Inside the AI Revolution: What It Feels Like From Here
I am not a coder. I don’t have a technical background. I can’t read a neural network architecture diagram the way some people read a map. I’m just a curious person who ended up, through the sheer accident of being alive in this particular decade, having a ringside seat to something that feels genuinely unprecedented.…
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What the Grateful Dead Taught Me About Improvisation — and Life
There’s a moment in the Dead’s second set on May 8, 1977 — the legendary Cornell show — where Jerry Garcia takes “Scarlet Begonias” somewhere unexpected. The band is locked in, the jam is building, and then it pivots into “Fire on the Mountain” and the whole thing opens up like a door you didn’t…