Stop Saying We’re “Outsourcing Thinking”
Why AI Is an Epistemic Extension, Not a Cognitive AbdicationEvery time I hear someone say that using AI means we are “outsourcing thinking,” I feel the same quiet irritation one…
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Entering the Studio Without Asking Permission
How AI is reshaping who gets to create — and what creation now asks of us.For most of human history, creative practice has been gated by thresholds that were invisible…
Agency Without Control
Rethinking the Self in an Age of Distributed IntelligenceMost people I speak with...
Navigating the Affordance Landscape
Creativity, Selfhood, and Agency in the Age of Extended AI.We are living through a period of change that is not merely technological but topologica...
Superpositioned Worlds
How Secular Urban Moderns Can Re-Enter the Pluriverse Through the Metaphors of ScienceFor decades, scholars of decoloniality and pluriversality have argued that the modern world is not the only world.…
How We Lost the Plot: What Happens When a Society Loses Its Shared Story — and Its Sense of the Real
We are living through a transformation so deep it cannot be captured by economics alone—one that is reshaping not just our livelihoods, but our very sense of what is real.For…
The Quiet Gifts of AI
Why the most meaningful benefits are the hardest to notice.Across the publi...
The Extended Modern Synthesis
On Cognitive Bandwidth, Evolution, and the One-World World The other day, I experienced what it feels like to think with extended cog...
The Cognitive Bandwidth Effect: How AI Is Changing the Way We Think
We are living through a quiet revolution in thought. As humans learn to think with machines rather than through them, the process of meaning-making itself is changing. The boundary between…
Episode 17: The Return of the Primeval Flame
You can now listen to the story being told in English, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Italian, HindiWe live in a Brave New World. Hear about the future from Frank,…
Re-worlding the User Experience of Being Human
Change the metaphor of the self, and you change the user experience of your world.Changing the Operating System of the Self We live in a time of constant software updates.…
From the Great Acceleration to the Great Enshitification and Beyond: Part Two
Part Two: Missed Opportunities, the Great Enshitification, the Consequences for the Young, and the Age of Flux The Missed MomentThe end of the Cold War in 1989 was supposed to…
From the Great Acceleration to the Great Enshitification and Beyond
Part One: How the Great Acceleration Gave way to Neoliberalism and Globalization The Postwar Dream In 1945, the world exhaled. The devastation of the Second World War left cities in…