AI

21 posts

12 February 2026 · work · philosophy

Busy was always avoidance

Staying busy kept you from noticing where you were. AI didn’t create the abyss—it just forced you to look.

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11 February 2026 · AI · eclectis · productivity · authexis

The intelligence briefing you’re not getting

Most knowledge workers spend 45 to 90 minutes each morning manually triaging the internet. The time already exists in your day. You’re just spending it on filtering instead of reading.

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10 February 2026 · work · AI · philosophy

You were trained to suppress yourself

Organizations didn’t accidentally reward the machine-self. They engineered it. And you cooperated because it worked—until now.

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3 February 2026 · technology · history · writing

We always panic about new tools (and we’re always wrong)

Every time a new tool emerges for making or manipulating symbols, we panic. The pattern is so consistent it’s almost embarrassing. Here’s what happened each time.

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6 January 2026 · artificial-intelligence · culture

When teaching stops being bounded

AI removes the constraints that gave teaching its shape—one teacher, thirty students, limited time. But lifting constraints doesn’t make the work easier. It makes it different. Teachers trained for a bounded classroom now face an unbounded role that requires judgment, discernment, and presence in ways we haven’t yet mapped.

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31 December 2025 · artificial-intelligence · culture · labor

Why your job matters more than mine: The selective morality of job loss

Throughout history, some jobs get moral protection while others are just casualties of progress. The pattern reveals that job protection isn’t about the work itself—it’s about class, power, and who gets to write the story.

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28 December 2025 · artificial-intelligence · culture

AI in writing: The end of a professional monopoly

Writing began as bureaucracy and remains system-interface work. The panic over AI-generated text isn’t about protecting human creativity—it’s about a professional class defending its monopoly on the written word.

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7 December 2025 · business · technology

The one-person company advantage: Why coordination overhead is the new competitive liability

Unlock the power of one-person operations as they outpace traditional teams by leveraging AI, minimizing coordination costs, and enhancing decision speed.

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17 February 2023 · technology

ChatGPT and AI writing

Explore how ChatGPT transforms writing by saving time and resources, while also posing challenges for the future of aspiring writers.

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14 January 2023 · education · management · philosophy

AI writing? Same rules as for writing

Explore why AI-generated content deserves the same scrutiny as traditional writing, focusing on quality, accuracy, and transparency in the writing process.

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