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

When Intelligence Stops Being Artificial: From Control to Conscious Partnership

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

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

AI Is Not a “Lie Detector of the Heart”: When We Hand Over Our Relationships to Machines

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

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

Tinker: Can an Independent AI Infrastructure Startup Survive Between Giants?

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

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

AI Bubble or Natural Selection? A Rebuttal to Inc.’s Take on Y Combinator

When Inc. published its piece, “How the AI Bubble Ate Y Combinator,” many nodded in agreement. After all, 154 out of 170 startups in YC’s Summer 2025 batch are AI-related. That ratio feels extreme, even unsustainable. To critics, it smells like another dot-com moment—a speculative surge headed for collapse. But a deeper look paints a … Read more

OpenAI’s $4.3B Revenue vs. $2.5B Burn — Are They Really Repeating AWS’s Playbook?

OpenAI’s $4.3B revenue and $2.5B cash burn in 2025 invite comparisons with AWS’s early years. But are they truly on the same trajectory? This deep analysis breaks down margins, competition, risks, and the future of AI infrastructure. Introduction In the first half of 2025, OpenAI reported $4.3 billion in revenue while simultaneously burning $2.5 billion … Read more