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The Paradigm-Shifting Founder Loop
Every founder that's making something transformational comes to a crossroads. There is a time to keep visioning or a time to execute. Being able to move and moving out of your own way can be the difference between changing the system and staying in the invention loop forever.
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3 days ago4 min read


Waste to Wonder - What DIY Vape Batteries Teach Us about AI and Human Imagination
Where does invention come from? Always the unlikely places. In this blog I discuss a recent inventor that powered his house with 500 disposable single use vape batteries.
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Nov 253 min read


The Keeper of the Fire: A Modern African Parable About AI, Spirit, and Who Gets to Shape Tomorrow
An African Parable of AI and Spirit. Who keeps the technology that creates our tomorrow?
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Nov 124 min read


Sacred Intelligence? Re-imagining Spirituality Next.
What happens to our institutions in the age of AI? In this post, I explore what happens to spirituality as we move propel forward with this new form of intelligence.
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Nov 44 min read


The Great Unlearning
A deep dive into the need for Higher Education in the Age of AI.
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Oct 284 min read


Embracing Complexity: Taylor Swift, AI, and the Art of Interpretation
Questions related to the response to my prior post on Taylor Swift's use of AI in her promotional campaign for Life of a Showgirl.
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Oct 213 min read


Between Magic and Machinery: Artists, AI, and the Burden of Authenticity
Something strange happened in the world of Taylor Swift last week. A series of shimmering, dreamlike promotional videos for her new album...
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Oct 143 min read


A Watershed for AI and Creativity: Reflections on the Anthropic Settlement
The $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement: A Turning Point for Creativity and AI The $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement is a turning point. For years, creative professionals have supplied the invisible backbone of artificial intelligence. Their words, images, and voices trained the systems that now dominate the landscape of digital innovation. Until now, they received nothing. This settlement changes the narrative. It recognizes that human creativity is not a free dataset. It has
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Oct 53 min read


Em-Dashes, Negations, and the Fingerprints of AI Writing
Last week I was consulting with a client when I stumbled across a LinkedIn post. The subject was earnest enough—“AI should never replace...
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Sep 293 min read


I AM Who I Want: Authenticity in the Age of AI
The words came not from me, but from my beloved over coffee one morning: “I may not be where I want, but I AM who I want.” PROMPT:...
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Sep 233 min read


Tidework
Lessons in water. A poem.
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Sep 161 min read


Remembering Ourselves Forward II
Introducing Ancestral Echoes. Your AI Anthropologist for preserving your family legacy.
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Sep 122 min read


When the Shelter Falls: Ritual Reimagined at Burning Man
I went to Burning Man this year carrying the intention of an ancestral grief ritual. It was going to be my contribution to our camp...
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Sep 93 min read


Beyond Words: What Elephants and Orcas Can Teach AI About the Future of Intelligence
This week I was struck by two powerful stories of non-human communication. Elephants in Zimbabwe using non-verbal gestures to ask humans...
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Aug 142 min read


Hours with Claude Does Not Make an App
This is the refrain I used with a friend who asked me what I thought about a potential project. There is something I keep seeing in the...
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Aug 62 min read


NOT THEO! Why We Must Capture the Now
If I had a dollar for every time I said my life could be a sitcom, I would have enough to hire Stephen Colbert and the South Park guys....
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Jul 252 min read


Where Have All The Joyful Futures Gone?
A Call to Artists in the Age of AI If you've noticed a trend lately, you're not alone. In the past year, I’ve watched films like...
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Jul 162 min read


Einstein, Picasso, and the AI Imagination Gap
If I’ve learned anything from years of working across both the technical and the transcendent, it’s this: the biggest missing ingredient...
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Jul 82 min read


Hidden Ingredients of AI Creativity
Prompt: Beautiful African AI Creativity Image with Mathematical Symbols I've often discussed the phenomenon we call "hallucination" the...
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Jul 22 min read


Packing Up to Begin a Life of Exploration
I’m writing this with suitcases poised, sore back, heart fluttering, excitement buzzing, nostalgia gently tugging at my tear ducts every...
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Jun 182 min read
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