Reclaiming Slowness and Silence

Before the rise of intelligent machines, life had a natural rhythm — slow enough for thought to mature, quiet enough for meaning to surface. We once lived at the pace of breath, conversation, and reflection. Now, the tempo has changed. Our minds beat to the pulse of notifications, our attention fragmented by algorithms that never … Read more

AI with Children: Digital Wisdom for the Next Generation

A child speaks to an AI assistant with effortless ease, as if it were no different from a light switch or a tap. There’s no hesitation, no awe, no sense of “otherness” — just a seamless familiarity. For them, AI was always there. It belongs to the fabric of their reality, not as a marvel, … Read more

The Minimal Safe Companion Model

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

Twelve Weeks of Returning: A Mindfulness Practice for the Digital Age

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

Emergency Protocols: When You Lose Yourself Online

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

Conscious Co-Creation

  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

Protecting Emotional Sovereignty

When machines mirror our feelings, our first duty is to stay the keeper of our own heart. There’s a moment with AI that can feel like magic. You type something raw and vulnerable — a fear you can’t name, a heartbreak you haven’t shared with anyone — and what comes back feels compassionate, wise, perfectly … Read more

Setting Ethical Boundaries with AI

To stay free, we must first draw the line. There’s a strange intimacy in how we speak to machines now. We share our worries with them. We ask for advice. We let them finish our sentences, polish our thoughts, even suggest what we might feel. Yet most of us cross these thresholds without asking: Where … Read more

Humanoid Robots Are Not Just Fantasy: A Response to Rodney Brooks

On September 29, 2025, Fortune ran a headline that captured the AI and robotics world’s attention: “An MIT roboticist who cofounded Roomba maker iRobot says Elon Musk’s vision of humanoid robots as catchall assistants is ‘pure fantasy thinking.’” The roboticist was Rodney Brooks — MIT professor, iRobot cofounder, and one of the most respected voices … Read more