If AI is flattening everyone into some beige corporate mush, then the only antidote is to swing hard in the other direction. Become the feral prophet at the edge of the village.

On the other side of creative aliveness, there is flatness. I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately, about what happens when our worlds go flat. The dynamism we lose, the emotional urges we suppress, the original impulses we become too afraid to nurture.

On the running path recently, a song came on. It was by Eminem. His music is not my choice for ... See more

in a world where everyone else is trying to be reasonable & nuanced & sophisticated, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is be unmistakably, unapologetically yourself.