A few years ago, the ground moved under my blog. I had built real traffic by writing to search, and for a while it worked beautifully. Then Google changed how it ranked things, shifting toward what it called helpful content….
Think about the last decision you made today. Did you make it on your own? Or did you check something first? When deciding what to wear for the day, so many of us check the weather app rather than stepping…
I learned something about myself recently, and it’s been sitting with me since. When I was young, I was taught to rehearse what I said before I said it. In my head, I would run each sentence through first, checking…
Recently, I read the first reworked draft of a project I had almost let go of, and I felt it in my body. A lift in my chest. The same charge I felt years ago when the idea first arrived,…
My mom told me about it. A data center in the actual town where I grew up. I had mixed feelings when she told me. I still have mixed feelings. My mom felt confused and upset about it, which makes…
Something is shifting. You can feel it if you pay attention. There’s a growing restlessness with the endless scroll, the algorithmic feed, the sense that we’re being entertained but not nourished. People are starting to ask what we actually lost…
The sentences you repeat are not describing your life. They are instructing it. Here is the practice I use to choose them on purpose.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
