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Condemned to Decide
An essay about agentic vs mimetic people, using your lizard brain, and why outsourcing your judgment to AI is a values problem before it’s a technology one.
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Of No Use: Ars Gratia Artis
On the habit of asking everything to justify itself.
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And Probably Will Be For Life Trend
This essay contains a couple of thoughts on the “In Your 20s, There Will Be” trend. I’m not entirely sure what it’s called, but if you’ve been on social media lately, you’ve definitely seen it.
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You Invented a Fake Ending to ‘You’ve Got Mail’
Why so many of us mis-remember the ending of You’ve Got Mail because our brains fill in what comes next and the fact that we all come up with the same alt-ending probably says less about the movie and more about us.
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The Weight of Small Things
On spending the day with my daughter and her friends on her 3rd birthday, and examining the myth of a carefree childhood.
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Inconvenience Is the Price of Community but Also–
Enough of these economics-inspired slogans.
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We All Need a Version of Ourselves We Can Live With
How we justify the decisions that shaped us, and what it takes to see ourselves honestly without falling apart.
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Thinking in the Age of ChatGPT
On whether AI-powered writing tools are helping us work smarter, or just helping us avoid thinking altogether, based on what MIT saw happening inside people’s heads.
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Growing Up Online
A personal story about remote schooling in 2005, growing up online, and how the internet used to feel like a place instead of a product.
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Annoying: A Love Language
On being annoying and the exhausting lengths we go to seem otherwise. An essay about performance anxiety and trying to be chill.
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The Age of Proof
An essay about age, seriousness, and what we lose when we try too hard to get life right.
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This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Ghiblis
On the discourse about AI, Studio Ghibli, and why our obsession with imitation might say more about us than about the machines.