The Human Playbook
Exploring how AI is changing intelligence, work, relationships, and what it means to be human.
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The World Is Changing. Where Do You Fit Now?
The bench is already warm when I sit down. It’s not even nine in the morning yet. I stay there for fifteen minutes after dropping my daughter at daycare. Long enough to cool off. Long enough to delay the traffic home.
I’m scrolling through...
We’re Using AI Wrong
“Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it” - Jorge Luis Borges
I have a secret test for knowing when a t...
What Is Slop?
“You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both.” - John Ruskin, "The Nature of Gothic" (1853)
This week alone three of the internet's biggest platforms declared war on AI slop. Snapchat launched a camp...
What Is Intelligence, Anyway?
There’s a Brazilian quote I love that is always mistranslated into English.
The polite version says:
Without passion, you can’t even eat an ice cream.
The line belongs to Nelson Rodrigues. Every few years it seems to find me again, pai...
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....
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An independent research project exploring the gap between AI's promises and human reality. Part psychology, part cultural observation from inside the tech industry.
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