Cam Jones

Here, the lesson I believe is not that we should resist AI, as Tyler rightly says, but that we should anchor its use in the irreducible tacit knowledge of human practitioners. The craftsman with decades of attention behind their choices, the nurse whose diagnostic hunch has been tempered by thousands of bodies and hours, these are not forms of... See more

That slow erosion of inner presence is the heart of The Thinker’s essay on burnout. Drawing on philosophers Byung-Chul Han and Heidegger, he writes about how modern workers are conditioned to optimize, perform, and self-regulate until their labor becomes disconnected from any internal source. Meaning isn’t lost through exhaustion, it rather slips... See more

We do not live in a world of things. We live in a world of links. And links generate hierarchies long before institutions do.

This explains why the Internet, marketed as a peer-to-peer utopia, collapsed into six platforms (Google, Amazon, Facebook/META, Apple, X/Twitter and Microsoft). It explains why a supposedly free market gives us Amazon, not... See more

After all, music has existed for tens of thousands of years. Across countless cultures and generations, it’s been at the root of some of the deepest, most profound connections that humans can experience. Recorded music has existed for less than 200 years. And because recorded music is also beautiful, fascinating, and, in our culture, ubiquitous, I... See more

As Every CEO Dan Shipper writes, most productivity tools are built for convergence, the part of creativity that involves narrowing down and refining ideas. They aren’t built for divergence, which involves opening ourselves up to new ideas and possibilities.

The consequences of climate change, such as more frequent and severe extreme weather, increase with every tenth of a degree of warming; beyond 1.5C, the planet risks crossing thresholds that could trigger abrupt changes and climatic feedback loops.

The feeling of progress is one of the best feelings of all. This is true even when progress is small.