Taking Flight
Abby FalikField notes from the horizon where courage meets freedom.
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Sunday Signals: Ghosted by the Algorithm
Dear Friends,
I recently wrote something I cared about deeply — a reflection on how casually we’ve started attributing words like agency, intuition, and consciousness to machines.
I posted it to LinkedIn, felt the familiar flush of vulner...
Sunday Signals: What Felt Alive at TED 2026
The first AI-generated TED Talk
Dear Friends,
I’m experimenting with something new here.
My monthly essays take time to bake — and I love that rhythm. But I’m always tracking signals, noticing patterns, following threads, and wanting to...
What Will We Do With Our Time?
Golden Hours | 2025
A friend came over for dinner recently. He’s a few months into a new role building technology to optimize daily life.
I asked how things were going.
His eyes gleamed. Then glazed.
“It’s thrilling,” he said. “But we’r...
How Do We Get From Fear to Flourishing?
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Dear Friends,
Across history, when systems collapse, new ways of learning have emerged—quietly, courageously, at the edges. Mystery schools. Folk schools. Freedom schools.
These weren’t classrooms. They were thresholds.
Th...
How Do We Rebuild Trust?
Counting Steps | 2025
Recently, I was invited onto a podcast as an “expert” on trust. The YES came fast—whole-bodied, electric, tinged with that perfect edge of fear.
I trusted the response.
But in the days that followed, I fell into a f...
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Founder and futurist. Co-Creator @The Flight School. Visiting Fellow @Stanford.
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