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The Brief Pause. Numbered issues: the pieces I think are worth a wider audience, gathered as they go out.
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#42
The year I was 42 produced fifty answers. Then I stopped for most of the summer and worked out which part was actually scarce.
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Tuesday Afternoon
On slow correspondence, friction, and the work that happens in the wait.
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The Thing That Wasn't Supposed to Move Me
I clear paths for a living and never noticed I was the one who needed it most. A field note on an empty idea box, a manifesto made out loud in a moving car, and being moved by the thing that wasn't supposed to move me.
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Addicted to the Output, Not the Outcome
A conversation with Claude after 2.5 months of intense building — on why we crave complexity, what the full backlog is really protecting us from, and what happens when the flow finally stops.
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The Exoskeleton and the Morning Walk
AI didn't give me superpowers. It gave me back my time. A personal field note on what it actually feels like to build an entire content campaign in one conversation — with a dog at your feet and a coffee going cold.
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The Runner and the Grid: A Field Note on Working with AI
AI is a Runner — fast, reckless, useful. A personal vocabulary for navigating the messy reality of working with AI every day.
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When the Floor Moves
When skills you spent years mastering become a button, it shakes your identity. Why AI anxiety is often grief — and how to start small.
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A Lightsaber Doesn’t Make You a Jedi
A Star Wars-flavoured look at AI’s light and dark sides in medicine, marketing, and education — and the small “Jedi habits” that help you use powerful tools without losing judgment.
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Imaginary friends, AI agents, and who’s really steering.
We had imaginary friends as kids to rehearse being human. Now our AI agents do the same thing — but who’s steering whom?
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On Creativity: Feeling vs Being
Creativity isn't about producing — it's about reconnecting. How a morning walk and childhood LEGO sparked a new way of seeing creative health.
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Leaders Without Answers: Why Humility Is the New Strategy
AI made information abundant, but 40% of AI-assisted work gets redone. The leaders who thrive now lead with curiosity, not certainty.
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Echoes of Me
When My Digital Twin Writes Back