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Lately, I’ve been tuning out. Not because the ideas are bad, but because I can hear the machine. The rhythm. The symmetry. The frictionless clarity. And frictionless keeps me from learning. Neuroscience tells us memory strengthens through effort and surprise. We remember what disrupts us. So if AI generates the draft, we lightly edit, and readers skim… where exactly is the learning happening? Without wrestling, there is no wisdom.

For certain AI can help solve global challenges. The question is whether the people with the most power in this field are willing to look up from the mirror and look out at the world.

As the new year dawns, I realize that the last 5 years have taught me many important lessons. After Integration (2024) and Flow (2025), my word or intention for 2026 is coherence.

We are living through the consequences of technologies built without asking what they were doing to our nervous systems. Now we have a chance and even a responsibility to build something different.