AI as an Analogy

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...

Chapter 8: To Change or Not To Change?

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...

Chet’s Goals

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...

Chapter 7: Building Upward

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...

Chapter 6: Rethinking the Base

If we’re going to build, we have to start at the foundation. And no, not just the metaphorical kind—we’re talking shelter, water, food, security. The basics. The stuff we tend to ignore until it’s missing. Think of it like the part of your body that is automatically...