Practicing being human

We need to set our roots deep. Bare feet in the dirt, looking up at the sky. We need to spend time sitting around a fire together. We need to spend time co-regulating. We need to stretch, do yoga, do qigong, meditate, contemplate, sink into the rich texture and fabric of our experience. We need to remember and help others remember that we are human... See more

The first step is to understand the fundamental difference between humans and AIs. We are analog, chemical beings, with emotions and feelings. Compared with machines, we think slowly—and we act too fast, failing to consider the long-term consequences of our behavior (which AI can help predict). So we should not compete with AI; we should use it. At... See more

Many of us yearn for a way to be fully online without all of the mindlessness, passivity and addiction that often entraps us. Some of us oscillate between fully online and fully offline in a sort of mad dance to establish what feels right. Others have lost hope that it’s possible to engage in a way that feels true and alive, and have resigned to us... See more