Philip Soriano

Where am I going with design? That's a hard question because none of us has the ability to understand our path until it's over.

Organizations’ worst employees, who receive little to no positive reinforcement every day, will soon have ASI agreeing with them. They will whisper to themselves, “the smartest intelligence that has ever existed agrees with me. My manager is wrong.”

This is intoxicating. It’s also organizationally toxic.

Fig 5. Individual AI echo chambers fuel... See more

Once the heart area has been liberated, attention continues to move downward into the area of the belly, or the hara. The term hara is mostly used in Japanese martial arts such as aikido and meditative traditions such as Zen. It refers to a vital energy center that resides below the navel in the lower belly. While the hara appears to be distinct

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It turns out my really big problem was thinking I might one day get rid of all my problems, when the truth is that there's no escaping the mucky, malodorous compost-heap of this reality. Which is OK, actually. Compost is the stuff that helps things grow.

If AI chatbots and AI-powered search results are summarizing everything for you, why would you go to a website? And if we all stop going to websites, what’s the incentive to put new content on the web? What’s going to stop shady characters from flooding the web with AI-generated spam to try and game these systems? And if we succeed in choking the... See more

In a world where we can outsource productivity to technology, the people who reap the biggest rewards aren’t those who work the fastest.

They’re the people who make things that are wonderful, original, weird, emotionally resonant, and authentic. As our feeds become flooded with instant, AI-generated content, the most dangerous thing you can do is... See more

The Era Of Multiple Identities: We Discover, Embrace, & Express Our Multiple Selves -> From networks like Discord, where users are represented by whatever name and avatar they choose, and ItsMe, where people connect in real-time using a creative avatar of their choosing, we’re seeing huge growth in willingness to engage, transact with, and befriend... See more