Our around-the-clock overexposure to global human suffering, our daily feed of what we once considered catastrophic events — political, ecological, cultural — when combined with diminished attention spans, smaller and smaller chunks of content, and baked-in cross-platform imperatives to remain emotionally removed from any given person, place, or... See more

The insincerity, the rampant performativity, the illusion of urgency, the obsession with constructing futures at the expense of the present – for better or worse, these are all things I associate with being a technologist. And when I speak to my technologist friends, most of them share the same inkling that something is amiss .

Far too many of us... See more

There is now certain kind of numbness of consumption. The tragedy is not that we don’t get what we desire, but that we’re no longer even sure what it means to truly desire something.

Now, in the post-AI world, even confusion feels inauspicious. Why sit with a thought when a bot can finish it for you? Why write incoherently for years when a tool can... See more