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AI Doesn't Replace Creativity — It Multiplies It

A manifesto on creativity in the age of AI. It's not a threat. It's a lever. Here's why the creative class should be excited, not afraid.

Why Every Creative Needs a Beatnik Poet in Their Pocket

An essay on using AI as a creative catalyst — and why the most useful creative tool might be the one that thinks nothing like you.

Why I Talk to Cleopatra Every Morning

A personal essay on using the Cleopatra AI soul as a daily thinking partner — and what an ancient queen taught me about running a modern life.

The Disability Tax: What It Actually Costs to Live in a World That Doesn't Plan for You

The literal time, money, and energy cost disabled people pay for non-accessible products. AI tools can lower the tax for users AND for designers.

A woman at a DMV kiosk in Sacramento spends eleven minutes filling out a form that takes most people ninety seconds. The kiosk is touch-only. Her hands shake. The buttons are small, and when she misses one the form resets to the beginning. On her fourth attempt, a clerk finally c…

The People Who Taught Machines to Talk

Profiles of the researchers, dreamers, and contrarians who spent decades making conversational AI possible — and what they think about where it ended up.

Terry Winograd built the most impressive natural language system of 1970 and then spent the next fifty years explaining why it didn't matter. His program SHRDLU could understand English commands about a virtual world of colored blocks. "Pick up the big red block." "Put it on top…

When the Internet Was Scary Too

Everything people fear about AI today, they feared about the internet in 1995 — and understanding that pattern might be the most useful thing you can do right now.

On June 26, 1995, Newsweek published an article by astronomer Clifford Stoll titled "The Internet? Bah!" It opened with this sentence: "After two decades of online, I'm perplexed." Stoll proceeded to explain why the internet was overhyped, why online databases would never replace…

The Quiet Revolution: How AI Went from Lab to Living Room

The untold human story of how artificial intelligence escaped academia and became something your mom texts you about.

In 1966, a computer scientist named Joseph Weizenbaum sat in his MIT office and watched something that disturbed him profoundly. His secretary — an intelligent, educated woman — was typing messages to ELIZA, a simple chatbot he'd created as a demonstration of how shallow human-co…

AI and Loneliness: The Unexpected Comfort of Digital Companions

A thoughtful, empathetic long-form piece on AI companionship. Explores the tension between human connection and AI support — not promotional, but journalistic. Handles the topic with care and nuance.

The Quiet Revolution: How AI Went from Lab Curiosity to Your Morning Routine

A long-form essay on the cultural shift of AI going mainstream — not about technology, but about how our daily lives quietly transformed while we were busy arguing about sentience.