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Why Don’t We Make Beautiful Things Anymore?
Why has work lost its meaning? Why have we stopped making things that last? Why do we feel like something is missing? And what, if anything, ties all of it together?
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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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Of No Use: Ars Gratia Artis
On the habit of asking everything to justify itself.
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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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We All Need a Version of Ourselves We Can Live With
How we justify the decisions that shaped us, and what it takes to see ourselves honestly without falling apart.
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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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The Age of Proof
An essay about age, seriousness, and what we lose when we try too hard to get life right.
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Letting love do its work
Thoughts on The Velveteen Rabbit, and the quiet courage it takes to let ourselves be transformed by love.
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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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Friendship Stuff Part II
Another set of messy thoughts on friendships, mainly focusing on how to be a better friend. There’s an explanation for the moth picture.
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Grab your friends, wear your florals
On bad but impactful art, tone-deaf marketing, celebrity culture, and wealth.