The problem isn’t that machines are becoming more human-like, it’s that humans are becoming more machine-like in an effort to keep up.

Community in motion

Patrick Kho reports on a new vision for third spaces—those gathering spaces beyond the workplace and the home. This new version is less a physical space where communities might (or might not) interact, and more intentional collectives that are “people first, space second.”

The decades-long erosion of never speaking leaves nothing you can point to.

Which explains why people stay in the wrong job, the wrong relationship, the wrong version of themselves for years.

Not because they don’t know better, but because action demands stepping into an unrehearsed future.

Hamlet names the real enemy: uncertainty.

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I feel like I’m always wanting to make a space where people just feel safe enough to not have to do very much, and that, in not doing much, they can then get to the business of the soul and the spirit

We don’t trust each other as much because we don’t take the time to know each other.

Between Kokotajlo's scenario and Lütke's directive lies the terrain of our technological future. One draws a map, and the other draws a line. Together, they remind us that the future of AI isn't just something that happens to us but is shaped by thousands of decisions in boardrooms, policy circles, and individual careers. For the marketing manager... See more

So maybe, all you need to do is be known for ONE thing, or capture ONE audience well and serve relevant shopping ads.

Recognition is so deeply human that we practice it even when no one is there.

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2026 predictions | Motorsports edition

Shift Happens #10 | Weekly pivots where motorsport collides with tech and culture.

TONI COWAN-BROWN

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