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When Process Replaces Purpose
A Document Covered in Comments A document may take only a few hours to write and several weeks to approve. This is so common…
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The Two Stages of Writing
Before the Document Long before I owned a computer, writing began on paper. Not good paper, either. More often it was a yellow pad,…
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Knowing Is Not Becoming
When Knowledge Disappoints Us There are moments when knowledge disappoints us, not because knowledge itself has failed, but because we expected more from it…
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The Wisdom Gap
The Sunset of the Lone Architect We have entered a period where the traditional archetypes of authority are showing their age. For decades, the…
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The High-Resolution Human
We often view our social rituals through a lens of cultural tradition, yet many of these interactions are built upon a foundation of chemical…
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The Unit of Sharing Is a Folder, Not a File
Last week I lost two hours to a Word document. Not writing it. Formatting it. Adjusting line spacing that refused to stay put. Fixing…
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The Dreaming Self That Remains
When we are young, we carry a simple belief without needing to explain it. Somewhere in the world, there is someone who will understand…
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The Shape of Thought
Recently, it has become almost routine to hear people say that they have moved from one AI tool to another. Some speak of leaving…
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The Systems We Choose
It began with something small. I asked Claude to help organize files on my desktop. It was not a complex request. It did not…
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Freedom That Feels Like Freedom
There are moments in everyday life when freedom feels almost self-evident. We wake up, check our phones, choose what to read, what to watch,…
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Not Free, Not Mechanical, Yet Both
There is a noticeable shift in how we speak about artificial intelligence. Not long ago, the emphasis was on generation. Systems produced text, images,…
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Not Separate, Not Pure, Not Alone
We often begin with an assumption that feels almost too obvious to question. Intelligence resides in the brain. Thinking happens in the head. The…