More ideas than I could do in a lifetime
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,…
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They’re building a data center in the town where I grew up
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…
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I spent 30 years consuming. Here’s what was underneath.
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…
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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…
