my mind is melting or rotting

Part of why I am writing this all out is because it feels like fiction to me. Because I feel so far from my ability to do this. I know I have it in me, of course. But I am a little bit shocked at how fried my brain feels, probably like much of the modern world’s (though not everyone, because the people sharing their 100+-books-read-this-year-lists ... See more

What risk are we radically underestimating as a species? What are we overestimating?

I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more

AI’s great gift might be to show us that we are actually pretty low-quality machines, so that we can return to being human.

I felt a shudder of awareness of just how much dumber I am making myself from having my phone around me all the time.