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Condemned to Decide
An essay about agentic vs mimetic people, using your lizard brain, and why outsourcing your judgment to AI is a values problem before it’s a technology one.
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And Probably Will Be For Life Trend
This essay contains a couple of thoughts on the “In Your 20s, There Will Be” trend. I’m not entirely sure what it’s called, but if you’ve been on social media lately, you’ve definitely seen it.
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You Invented a Fake Ending to ‘You’ve Got Mail’
Why so many of us mis-remember the ending of You’ve Got Mail because our brains fill in what comes next and the fact that we all come up with the same alt-ending probably says less about the movie and more about us.
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Inconvenience Is the Price of Community but Also–
Enough of these economics-inspired slogans.
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Thinking in the Age of ChatGPT
On whether AI-powered writing tools are helping us work smarter, or just helping us avoid thinking altogether, based on what MIT saw happening inside people’s heads.
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Growing Up Online
A personal story about remote schooling in 2005, growing up online, and how the internet used to feel like a place instead of a product.
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This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Ghiblis
On the discourse about AI, Studio Ghibli, and why our obsession with imitation might say more about us than about the machines.
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Cleaning My Fridge
My list of marinating thoughts on culture, friendships, the internet, society, and life in general.
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Grab your friends, wear your florals
On bad but impactful art, tone-deaf marketing, celebrity culture, and wealth.
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My Empathy Crisis
Empathy seems overloaded. We fight for global causes online but struggle to connect with the “Other” in our daily lives. But is technology creating a generation with empathy fatigue, or can we use it to bridge the gap between faceless compassion and real-world connections?
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The Internet Does Motherhood Dirty
A little note to my peers on having children.
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The Guilty Pleasure of Being Angry
On why despondency is annoying, and how we ought to inhabit a less-than-perfect world, especially online.