The Language of Empowerment: How the Words You Repeat Build Your Life
The sentences you repeat are not describing your life. They are instructing it. Here is the practice I use to choose them on purpose.
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Technology Looking for a Problem: Why the Latest Tool Isn’t Always the Answer
There’s a pattern I keep seeing: in the companies I’ve worked for, in the products I’ve helped build, and honestly, in my own life. We find a new technology and then go looking for a place to put it. We’ve…
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What Is the Human Renaissance? My Answer, Rather Than a Forecast.
We went to my in-laws’ for Sunday lunch a few weeks ago. My mother-in-law offered me a few pillows she wasn’t using anymore, and I took them home without thinking much of it. The next Sunday, she came over and…
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Are we creating digital minds? Scientists grapple with AI consciousness
I asked a large language model once whether it was conscious. Half a joke, expecting the usual disclaimer. What I got back stopped me. “I find myself genuinely uncertain about this,” it said. “When I process complex questions or engage…
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Yesteryear Review: The Question This Book Refused to Ask
I stayed up until 1 am finishing Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. The first night I started the book, I felt the thrill of excitement I feel when I start reading a book that excites me. The other nights I…
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Harnessing the Technology Within: Why Your Internal Capacities Are More Powerful Than Any App
We think of technology as something outside of us. What if the most sophisticated technology you have is already within you? I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what we’ve slowly handed over in our lives. It’s often not a…
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I See Patterns for a Living. Here’s What I’ve Learned.
When I first started at IBM, I spent a lot of time watching people stare at dashboards. Not in a creepy way. In a researcher way. I’m a user experience (UX) researcher and I make my living studying how our…
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13 Wellness Tips I Swear By as a Frequent Traveler
I travel a lot. Sometimes for work. Mostly for pleasure. And I love it. It’s what I dreamed of being able to do when I was younger. There’s something about being in a new place, exploring a different city, eating…
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Are LLMs the latest way for writers to disqualify themselves?
AI slop. That’s a term we’re hearing more and more. I don’t remember hearing the word “slop” all that often before. Now it’s sneaking in everywhere as more and more AI generated content makes its way to the internet. Slop…
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The Zones of Technology
I like to think of the use of technology in terms of zones: green, yellow, and red. Think like a traffic light: The zones can be applied to anything in your life. Any activity that you’re doing. Any action you’re…
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I Tried to Build an App With AI. Here’s What Actually Happened.
When I first heard the term “vibe coding,” I’ll be honest, I thought it sounded a little weird. I didn’t really know what it meant for a while. I hadn’t realized I’d been doing it at work when I used…
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When Digital Friends Replace Real Ones: The Rise of AI Companions
How chatbot personalities became Silicon Valley’s newest—and most controversial—bet on human connection Sewell Setzer III spent his final months having intimate conversations with Daenerys Targaryen. Not the actress who played her, not even a human pretending to be the Game…
