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  • From Token Maxing to AI Maturity

    When Using More Became a Virtue For a brief period, consuming AI tokens began to look like a professional virtue. Companies announced their intention to become AI-native, employees were encouraged to use…

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    From Token Maxing to AI Maturity
  • The Grand Narrative Against Grand Narratives

    The Distance Between Reputation and Argument A strange discomfort can arise when a celebrated thinker speaks about a subject we know through daily experience. The thinker’s reputation prepares us to expect unusual…

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    The Grand Narrative Against Grand Narratives
  • When Leaving Church Feels Like Leaving Christianity

    When a Place Becomes the Whole World Imagine a person in Japan who became Christian as an adult. Baptism was not a cultural formality inherited from family life. It followed a conscious…

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    When Leaving Church Feels Like Leaving Christianity

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Tom Yonashiro is a writer with a background in philosophy, religion, technology, and cybersecurity marketing. He writes to translate life’s complexities into meaning.