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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…
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On Movement, Gentleness, and the Way We Meet the World
There are moments in movement when something settles into place in a way that is difficult to describe but easy to recognize. I have…
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No Final Version
Sometimes a small detail opens a window into a much larger transformation. In recent years, a legal dispute in the Philippines revealed one such…
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Opening the Clock, Facing the Self
We are often told that reading books is a mark of intelligence. A house lined with books suggests seriousness. A long reading list implies…
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From Documents to Structured Knowledge
In many organizations, publishing begins with a simple and familiar event. A document arrives by email. It is usually a file created in Microsoft…
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Power, Tribe, and the Psychology of Dehumanization
In recent years, it has become common to describe political leaders, corporate executives, and institutional decision makers as psychopaths. The word appears in headlines,…