We have outsourced our thinking to machines, and in doing so, we have apparently also outsourced our attention spans. The modern workflow for a shocking number of people is as follows: 1. Pose query to AI. 2. Highlight the text.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There comes a deeply human moment in an oncologist’s office when statistics and survival curves fall away, and a person faces the most personal of choices. It’s the point where hope meets honesty, where we weigh more time against the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Humanity has a proud and storied tradition of finding things to argue about. For millennia, our battles were fought in Scarcity Mode. We clubbed each other over the last piece of mammoth meat, raised armies over fertile land, and went[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Half-Baked and Fully Broken: The Art of the Abandoned Project There’s a special kind of tragedy—or comedy, depending on how much you enjoy schadenfreude—in watching a grand project collapse into a half-finished mess because someone forgot to carry the zero[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
College—the hallowed institution where you’ll spend four years mastering the art of discussing postmodernism in coffee shops but graduate without the slightest clue how to unclog a drain. Universities are fantastic at teaching niche skills, like identifying 18th-century French literature[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Someday soon, in our brave new AI-dominated world, the script might be flipped—suddenly, machines will be the ones demanding we prove our robotic credentials. Instead of websites asking you to identify blurry street signs or click on pictures of buses,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s something uniquely demoralizing about being scolded by an algorithm for inactivity while watching a mandatory corporate training video that could put caffeine-fueled squirrels to sleep. You’re just trying to survive another 45-minute lecture on cybersecurity best practices when suddenly—pop-up!—the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The modern workplace is less humans collaborating and more humans frantically appeasing their robot overlords. AI has slithered into every corner of office life, from the chatty Slack bot that suggests synergistic paradigm shifts (read: nonsense) to the HR algorithm[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You know that moment when you casually mention one time that you’re thinking about buying a kayak, and suddenly every ad on the internet is like, “Heard you want a kayak!!!”—despite the fact that you have never, in your entire[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If the internet had a VIP section for data harvesting, the most valuable patrons wouldn’t be the influencers, the conspiracy theorists, or the terminally online hot-take artists. No, the real goldmine is boring people. The ones whose search history is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…