Why We Want Robots at Work but Humans in Art

We hate other people when latency becomes intolerable. As soon as a task is about speed, other humans feel like an irritating inconvenience. The Uber driver’s small talk annoys us. We wish we were in a Waymo. The cashier’s tip screen feels like a micro-ransom when all we want is a bottle of water.

I mean, we can’t out-AI an AI.
But we can out-human it.

Now is a time to lean into our humanity.
Yes, we can both do pattern recognition, and AI does it faster and more astutely.
But it can’t feel.
It can’t create the unknown.
It can only regurgitate.

These are the cracks in the pavement where living things sprout.
Where what is innately beautiful — life —

There’s an enormous ceiling on the potential for a news publication. Even a news aggregator.

At the end of the day, there are only so many published headlines that will be deeply relevant to my interests.

I’ve been using this app, Artifact, made by the creators of Instagram. Does a pretty good job guessing what’d be interesting to me (starting to

We are reaching an inflection point when it comes to how “inward” we continue to turn in every facet of our lives. We are all becoming increasingly more lonely, afraid of conflict, afraid of  silence, vulnerability, commitment, communication – the list goes on. Of course, social media and the ease of information is to blame. I don’t ask a neighbor