What “The Odyssey” Taught Me About My Phone
The lesson isn’t to unplug — modern life won’t allow it. It’s to decide before the music starts, so there’s no choice left to make.
Don’t Let AI Speak for the Dead
What we lose when an app remembers our dead for us.
The Co-Worker Who Never Stops
Working with a tireless machine makes stopping feel like failure.
The Invisible Hand Is a Person
Your best work was shaped by people who never took credit.
What AI Can’t Take From You
Machines may learn facts. They can’t learn to be you.
You Can Have Every Answer and Still Feel Lost
Hesse wrote a man who had everything, felt nothing—and wrote the way out.
The Loneliness of Being Needed
The strongest person you know is running on empty. It might be you.
We All Use AI. Here’s How to Use It Well
The future belongs to people who can think with AI—without thinking like it.
Be More Bored
The death of boredom is quietly eroding creativity, identity, and self-awareness.
Only Dead Things Stay the Same
On learning to live—and lead—in a life that never fully settles.
Your Next Chapter in the Age of AI
The things AI is taking from you don’t look like losses. They look like progress. Six things quietly disappearing from your life — and how to take them back.
What We Lose When Nothing Is Hard
Ease is the enemy of meaning.
Don’t Let AI Write the Story of Your Life
Your narrative is too precious to hand over to a machine.
The World Is on Fire. Now What?
Panic feels like action. It isn’t.
The Relationship that Never Hurts You Is Hurting You
How AI companionship weakens the psychological muscles real relationships build.
You Are Not Your Project
Our culture glorifies persistence, but the real skill is knowing when to quit.
When Everyone Agrees, Nobody Sees
Cognitive diversity is the infrastructure of America’s national security.
Are You Accepting Reality—Or Just Putting Up With It?
Tolerance can become a quiet form of avoidance.