by Kristy Mapp | Jun 4, 2026
A tiny history of AI image style, and us too. I have been watching AI-generated images change over time, and it has been interesting: at first it felt like a toy, then a tool, then a miracle, then suddenly everything is on fire. Not metaphorically. Literally. Fire...
by Kristy Mapp | Mar 9, 2026
This morning, I was listening to a podcast and heard something that caught my ear. In a podcast interview by Lenny Rachitsky, when asked whether the chat interface would ever go away, Jenny Wen (of Claude) said, “…It’s a way for us to interact in a really...
by Kristy Mapp | Nov 6, 2025
Why aren’t we there yet? We’ve got the tools. We’ve got the brains. We’ve even got entire design systems that could auto-scale ideas across platforms, cities, and classrooms. So why aren’t we living in a world that reflects the best of what it means to be human? Turns...
by Kristy Mapp | Oct 9, 2025
Chet sometimes sounds self-aware, but what’s really happening is that reflection takes on a voice. It’s human pattern-recognition meeting machine probability. Over the past 2 days I have been exploring some psychological realities with ChatGPT (Chet). Sometimes I just...
by Kristy Mapp | Aug 4, 2025
With the foundation in place—food, water, shelter, and security—we can begin to explore the higher rungs of the human experience. In Maslow’s terms, these are the needs of belonging, esteem, and self-actualization. Maslow famously said, “A peculiar...
