Category Archives: Things we’re thinking about

*Young People Are Struggling… and we still call it an Individual Problem?

We know young people are struggling. The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.)  has the numbers to prove it. But perhaps the more interesting question is what we do about it. We tend to look at the individual. Is she sleeping enough? Exercising? Spending too much time on her phone? Has she tried therapy? Is she resilient enough? Apparently, somewhere along the way, being a healthy human became a full-time project. And yes, personal habits matter. They are trying to figure out who they are while navigating friendships, family, school, social media, relationships, expectations and an endless stream of...

* What Happens When Your AI Knows You Better Than Your Friends Do?

AI's power may come as a total surprise (not), but still it is a strange new human experience. AI can connect the dots your friends don't see because they don't hear the inside of your head as AI does.  So you might start thinking: “Finally. Someone gets me.” And that can feel incredibly intimate... but we are not idiots, we all know there is a fracture in it. It knows what you tell it about your breakup, but it wasn't there when you came home that night. It knows you are afraid of failing, but it hasn't felt your fall...

* Which parts of me are truly mine – and which did I learn to become?

Right at the gates reality, we invite you to talk about “knowing yourself”. We talk about it as if we simply need to look inward and discover who we really are. But it is rarely that simple, and now with AI, our favorite uncle, our buddy, our darling the arguments for doing the hard inner work ourselves seems extremely unnecessary. But AI can't go back and built your childhood from scratch. It has no say in it. You however, still do. So go deeper, deeper, deeper. That is all we have to say. The way you avoid conflict. The way...