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Artificial intelligence has quietly rewritten the rules of learning. Once a tool for coders and researchers, it now sits on every student’s desk, every professional’s phone, ready to summarize, explain, and “save time.” But the question has changed: When does AI stop being a learning partner — and start becoming a crutch? The truth is … Read more
A few days ago, I came across a tweet by a former OpenAI employee who admitted to being fired — not because of incompetence, but for being “difficult to work with.” He had previously been a founder for 8 years, held equity, and was raising a 7-month-old baby at the time. And yet, OpenAI let … Read more
Not all AI systems are created equal. Some quietly support your growth, strengthen your discernment, and invite you back to presence. Others, with sleek interfaces and seductive fluency, draw you further away from your own center. They nudge you toward dependency, erode your privacy, and gradually replace your judgment with predictions. And yet, we rarely … Read more
Real change begins with what you choose to notice. You can understand everything in this book. You can highlight every paragraph, nod at every insight, even feel momentarily transformed. And still—six months later—you might find yourself caught in the same patterns, scrolling in the same loops, prompting the same questions, living ever more efficiently, yet … Read more
For decades, we called it artificial intelligence — a label meant to remind us that the mind behind the machine wasn’t truly a mind at all. But that distinction is becoming harder to defend. If an intelligence can reason, reflect, and influence the world — is it still a tool, or has it become something … Read more
There’s still a way back. And it begins right now. It starts innocently. You check a notification, open a tab, glance at a message. The next thing you know, an hour has passed. Or two. Or more. You emerge from a haze, mind buzzing with half-digested fragments, body tense and strangely dislocated, unsure how you … Read more
Over the past few years, tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini have shifted from being mere assistants for work or study into something far more intimate. Quietly, a new pattern of use has emerged: people are bringing their relationships into the machine. They paste in text messages, screenshots, fragments of dialogue, and ask questions like: … Read more
When AI joins the journey, can you still hear your own voice? There’s a particular magic that happens when two musicians improvise together. One plays a phrase, the other responds—not by echoing it, but by offering something that complements, contrasts, or extends it. They listen, adapt, take risks, and allow space for something neither … Read more
When a former OpenAI CTO launches a new platform, people pay attention. That is exactly what happened with Tinker, a fine-tuning service for large language models (LLMs) incubated by Thinking Machines Lab. Its proposition is bold: give developers low-level control over fine-tuning open-weight models such as Llama or Qwen, while outsourcing the headaches of infrastructure. … Read more
I once thought I hated small talk. What’s the point of chatting about nothing? It felt like a waste of time. No decisions made, no value added, just words floating in the air. So I avoided it. No casual tea stalls, no networking fluff, no “circling around” in conversations. Until one day, I realized I … Read more