Nov 17, 2025
Welcome back to Artificial Insights, your near-weekly bulletin from the near future. I’ve been thinking a lot about audiences lately. If AI becomes one of our primary audiences, then who are we really writing to? We used to create for others and for ourselves, and that hasn’t changed – but now there’s a third presence…
Oct 20, 2025
Welcome to your weekly download of memes and insights. I am trying to organize observations about how I work with AI into somewhat of a framework. Two weeks ago I wrote about how I think with AI , last week about how I create with AI , and this week I’m focusing on how I build. If creating turns ideas into form, build…
Oct 13, 2025
If thinking refines ideas, creating brings them into form. I’ve been interrogating my own use of AI in an effort to create a document or framework that might help others benefit as much as I have from applying AI across as many aspects of life as possible. I’m a technology maximalist – I believe more technology is the…
Oct 6, 2025
This newsletter began as an attempt to make sense of our transition toward AGI. I still believe ‘generality’ is next for AI, and that most of us will experience it in our lifetimes. Doing this involves learning, testing, and building things with AI. Over time, I’m realizing the work of writing weekly might become some…
Sep 29, 2025
When the future whispers, what does it say? There are as many ways of imagining the future as there are people trying. We inform ourselves, visualize, and backcast from the present to picture possible tomorrows. LLMs are poor at this work: they excel at interpolation – blending what exists, but falter at extrapolation…
Sep 22, 2025
Everything is political. As someone steeped in U.S. culture thanks to growing up on a diet of video games, rock music, and the early Internet, I feel at least partially connected to the “American way.” Having never lived in the U.S., my experience and observations are strictly those of a curious outsider, now watching…
Sep 15, 2025
One of the more surprising side effects of “infinite intelligence” is realizing just how much of my day is now spent interfacing with AI. The last time I felt something this profound was discovering the internet in the early 1990s – sensing an endless source of knowledge that would inevitably reshape how I learn, work…
Sep 8, 2025
Welcome back to Artificial Insights, your weekly dispatch from the near future. The Ember months are here, and I expect the next stretch to bring an overwhelming mix of AI breakthroughs, hype, and inevitable disappointments. What feels most valuable right now are the jagged edges, where customization makes all the dif…
Aug 18, 2025
The release of frontier models tends to attract strong opinions about whether we are any close to AGI , or if there is even a path from here to there. GPT-5, as expected, ignited the same polarization. I am not an AGI expert, but rather a curious generalist with spare time and strong incentives to experiment with auto…
Aug 4, 2025
AI does not need to do anything to succeed. As a hyperobject, it already carries unstoppable momentum. The growing constellation of labs, researchers, and ever-larger capital flows – combined with the remarkable results we already see – make continued expansion inevitable, toward capabilities we can scarcely imagine.…
Jul 21, 2025
Welcome to your regular dispatch of probable futures. Last week’s essay on the AI Line asked how we should measure ourselves against ever-smarter “advanced autocompletes.” Most discussion dwells on what we stand to lose—skills left unused, agency surrendered. I disagree. Automation expands, not shrinks, our capacity.…
Jul 14, 2025
Happy Monday and welcome to your weekly dispatch of future-facing sense-making (between rounds of Mario Kart World). AI isn’t just coming for jobs. It’s coming for the logic that underpins them. For generations, we’ve treated work as a moral anchor: it gives meaning, justifies survival, and distributes reward. But wha…
