The Human Playbook
Hi, I’m Gil Almeida. After a decade in big tech, I now write about how the world is changing and how we can stay grounded and human as AI reshapes how we live, work, and think together.
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We Know More Than Ever — So Why Is It Harder to Act?
“The boat of the covetous is left in the mud, while the bark of the silent sails with the wind.”
— Ancient Egyptian Proverb (c. 1100 BCE)
Imagine, thousands of years ago, the Nile at dusk, its surface catching the last of the light....
The Simulated Life
“I had everything that people usually associate with happiness: success, wealth, recognition, family. And yet the question kept arising: What will come of what I am doing today or tomorrow? What will come of my whole life? I felt that what...
Why Work No Longer Tells Us Who We Are
“I do not know who I am without my work. My hands keep moving even when I sleep.” — Textile worker, North Carolina, 1938.
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There is a different feeling in reading ol...
The story we’ve been telling about the future is wrong
“The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.” --- J.G. Ballard
J.G. Ballard once wrote that we misunderstand the future because we misread its present. And he had a point. Look at the retro-futuristic...
Is It Time for a New AI?
(Illustration credit: Arts & Science Magazine)
“We can only be human together.”
- Desmond Tutu
Yeah … it has been a long silence.
Not the silence of distraction, but of watching. Listening. Since I last wrote, the world o...
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Making sense of what it means to stay human and make decisions in a world shaped by AI and technology.
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