Items In My Head (Newsletter)
A newsletter sharing thoughts on how we build - products, platforms, economies, and behaviors—not just for output, but for continuity, context, and conscious participation.
Items In My Head (Newsletter)
When we stop practicing, we stop perceiving.
If value is migrating away from production, then spend time with the tools. Treat AI like a temporary circle of collaborators. Test, iterate, assemble modular workflows - but stay light on attachment. Friend groups evolve. So should your inputs.
Don’t confuse the landscape for the moat. Double down on what’s yours - your pattern recognition, your perspective, your synthesis. Because when the terrain shifts (and it will), your edge is knowing how to move within it to get what you want from it.
Yes, human nature is wired to receive - to seek safety, care, nourishment, love. But the evolution of that nature is in learning to give . Not as depletion, but as design. To create systems that support mutuality. Where life isn't spent, but sustained.
Rachel Campbell • A Whale is Worth More Alive
What’s often framed as “disruption” is, at its core, a byproduct of vacuum. A sealed system can’t see itself. But someone outside it can.
In this light, naivety isn’t ignorance. It’s unconditioned perception.
In this light, naivety isn’t ignorance. It’s unconditioned perception.
Rachel Campbell • What The Expert Misses
Here’s what this reveals: the systems we’ve built reflect our instincts. But those instincts are dual. We are extractive - and we are generative. We deplete - and we restore. We burn out - and we rebuild.
A Whale is Worth More Alive
Moving forward, success will be measured not only by technological innovation but by the ability these systems have to nurture authentic development and sustain resilient ecosystems of builders, thinkers, and creators.