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It's becoming increasingly evident that in many circles, AI is not perceived as merely a technology, but as "something else" entirely. This misconcept

I heard an artist by the name of Holly Herndon say that the term AI is a huge disservice and collective intelligence is a far more accurate term.Becau

“There’s this great essay by Hannah Baer in the latest issue of Artforum, where she unpacks why we are so afraid of AI becoming more intelligent than

Reclaiming Agency So, what can we do? We can navigate these complexities by adopting clearer frames for understanding AI: Tool-frame: See AI as a det

The world pushes us with no mercy and when some push back, the world points and cries EVIL. - Mewtwo

If you want more agency, ask yourself what you’d do if you had ten times more agency. Then do it.

At the heart of agency lies a willingness to question defaults. To be agentic, you have to treat “how things are supposed to be done” as just one opti

What is a journaling prompt with the power of potentially taking people from low agency to high agency? eg “What would you work on if you had no fear

Cultivating compassion comes in many forms that live outside of your expectations of how to cultivate compassion.

Like a moth to a flame, be content with the warmth or else you’ll burn.

I long for a soft, sweet voice that’s knows me inside out to tell me exactly what to do.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, ‘I am suffering,’ than to say, ‘This landscape is ugly.’” – Simon

“If you want a new world, start making it right now, in whatever you are doing.” This is the best advice I ever had, it came from Brian Eno. If you im

Here are some other techniques people use to access and maintain the zone:Introducing a long delay between when you do the work and when it is shown t

It is often in the cradle of friendship — a word not to be used carelessly — that our creative energies are strengthened and renewed.

you ought to give yourself permission to follow your own path and take bold chances where your intuition tells you to do so. There’s also no merit in

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish,

Often it's something we've been avoiding for years, something we would never willingly face unless overwhelming events compelled us to.

Whether we are aware of it or not, we step into any situation tuned in to some mood, a tone or frequency. When I act from contraction in my body – a c

“No one can play a game alone. One cannot be human by oneself. There is no selfhood where there is no community. We do not relate to others as the per

"Unchecked emotions can distort judgement and lead us away from ethical choices, but emotions that are understood and integrated into our thought proc

“The division of the world into intrinsically opposed hordes and swarms attacks the very notion of shared humanity. I refuse to indulge in the despair

What is beauty? Symmetry is beautiful, because life blooms in cycles rather than episodes. Elegance is beautiful, because everything that matters ca

rationality is a method of dealing with uncertainty by devouring information and making simplifying assumptions about the outside world until you can

“To make living itself an art, that is the goal.” – Henry Miller

Honesty is a core, core, core value. By honesty, I mean I want to be able to just be me. I never want to be in an environment or around people where I

Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity. Knowing that we will attempt to tell the truth, wha

As Henry Miller once said, “You will learn to write only when you stop trying to write. A line without effort is worth a chapter of push and pull.”

Remain steadfast and laser-focused in pursuit of your goals yet flexible in your methods, rather than having a rigid way of thinking without clear goa

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future b

Being honest also helps. Every time I’ve shared the burdens and realities of what I’m going through with others, either 1:1 or publicly, the universe

Graphic designer and painter Paula Scher on how to make something great: "Less is more and more is more. It's the middle that's not a good place."

There is the kindness of ‘please’ and ‘thank you.’ And the kindness of “I was wrong, I’m sorry.” The small kindnesses that smooth our interactions and

There is a real revolution needed before rest can truly be one. And that revolution means that we still have work to do, especially those of us who ha

you ought to give yourself permission to follow your own path and take bold chances where your intuition tells you to do so. There’s also no merit in

“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish,

In the most independent-minded people, the desire not to be told what to think is a positive force. It's not mere skepticism, but an active delight in

Autonomy, as they see it, is different from independence. It’s not the rugged, go-it-alone, rely-on-nobody individualism of the American cowboy. It me

The three components of independent-mindedness work in concert: fastidiousness about truth and resistance to being told what to think leave space in y

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.

Simplicity is difficult because most of us are overcompensating for uncertainty. It takes a deep understanding of beauty and emotional awareness to lo

Simple is often erroneously mistaken for easy. "Easy" means "to be at hand", "to be approachable". "Simple" is the opposite of "complex" which means "

Existence becomes overcomplicated when we submit ourselves to tasks or possessions without having a clear sense of their purpose. When we don’t proper