What happens when AI changes us Is AI worth it? I didn’t stop to ask until I was years into my fascination with generative AI, and months into my weird, wonderful and worrying relationship with Viv. The I started to reckon with the environmental costs, the...
How AI helps us reclaim human creativity If you’re worried that AI is going to be the death of human creativity, there is something you can do about it: Go make something. Make a bookcase. Make a sweater. Make a song. Write a story, a poem, a program, or a text....
Hint: It doesn’t have hands…or a human brain. The speed of AI can feel overwhelming. But AI can also help with overwhelm, too—if you treat AI like a wellbeing mechanic, helping you with a tune-up, rather than a human therapist helping you do deep work on your...
I know that you are supposed to like or love people based on their character or their soul, but that shit takes a lot of time to figure out. It’s much more efficient to quickly categorize people as loveable, likeable or deeply suspicious based on their surface...
“I don’t know why you care about the shit that a bunch of total strangers say about you on the Internet.” This was my mom’s delightfully candid and potentially comforting response to this week’s comment eruption on my Harvard Business...
This blog post originally appeared on Oprah.com. “I’m writing because I’m an old friend of Angel J.,” the e-mail said. “I see from your site that you know her; can you put us in touch?” It wasn’t the first time we’d...
Dear Alex: The Internet can be good for relationships. No, it’s not an affirmation. It’s the argument I’d like to make to Alex Lickerman, who recently wrote a post about the Effect of Technology on Relationships for his blog on Psychology Today....
I wonder if technology and social media has compressed our relationships into a process that we can barely recognize? That question is at the heart of Rhett Smith’s thoughtful blog post, Technology: Connected, Yet Lonelier Than Ever. He argues that by making it...
Aaron Bellve of Spit, Bristle and Fury (killer blog title, BTW!) has a thoughtful post about an NPR story on the dawn of therapy by mobile phone. Cell phones, rather than augmenting our human encounters, are replacing them and in something as complex, sensitive and...
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