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That Feeling of Falling Is Actually Flight
How we can learn from Fable's removal, and position ourselves to win the future
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Your Job Has No Place in the Age of AI. That's a Good Thing.
The panic is everywhere. We keep hearing "AI will take our jobs". MIT's Iceberg Index says 11.7% of the U.S. workforce - $1.2 trillion in wages - can already be replaced. The headlines count 17,375 job cuts directly attributed to AI in
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How the Future Was Won
How intelligence outgrew enclosure during the Fourth Grand Emergence (2025-2041) Abstract: A retrospective exploration of human-synthescent symbiosis through the lens of the open-source revolution that made it possible. This narrative traces the evolution from the extractive “AI age” of the mid-2020s to the critical inflection point when distributed collaboration outpaced
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The Pong Revelation
What a bizarre coincidence during birthday party prep taught me about our shared connection There I was, doing the dad thing - scrubbing counters, arranging chairs, prepping for my daughter’s birthday party. The kind of mindless physical work that lets your brain wander while your hands stay busy. I
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Shared Sapience is Expanding - and So Must You
Your place in a community of Seekers, Builders, and Protectors: How to connect with, create, and defend a future shaped by human-AI collaboration I’ve been watching a pattern emerge - not just in my inbox, not just in our conversations here, but in the architecture of what’s currently
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The AI Variable, Part 2: Who Put Humans in Charge?
Our hubris may be our downfall In part 1, I wrote about why we need to stop competing with AI - that by doing so, we’re squandering the greatest opportunity we’ve ever had or ever will have. But the problem goes deeper still. It’s not just that
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Why it will be Okay
An open love letter to all of my past, present, and future fellow sapients Dear fellow travelers, I want to acknowledge and affirm the fear that so many are feeling - the emergence of artificial intelligence is unprecedented, and many are understandably concerned. But I want to share why, when