Holding the Place
The notes are there. The information survived. So why is getting back to work still so difficult? A paper on how human–AI collaboration might help us recover the context that makes our own knowledge usable.…
What Love Gets to Ask
Relationships create obligations, but do they entitle us to the expressions of love we prefer? A family gathering becomes a question about boundaries, maintenance, and what people can build beside a legitimate no.…
Growls Prevent Bites
Perhaps the more useful skill is learning how to have conflict cheaply enough that there can still be coffee afterward.…
Somebody That I Used to Know
A relationship can end—and access and obligations with it—without making the person historically equivalent to a stranger.…
The Maintenance Cost of Liberty
Self-government has a maintenance cost. How much attention does a particular form of government require—and can ordinary people still afford to supervise it?…
The Highest Claim
A serious promise is meant to survive changed circumstances. But must it survive every change—even when one side no longer honors the rules that gave it the right to demand loyalty? Somewhere between hardship and destruction, judgment has to decide whether the original bargain still exists.…
The System Meant to Protect Us
Safety systems can fail in two directions: they may miss danger, or become dangers themselves. AI may need something more like a healthy immune system—observant, proportionate, layered, recoverable, and still answerable to the people it was meant to protect.…
Somebody Handed the Imaginary Person a Mouth
AI gave my imaginary audience a mouth. That small change helped explain memory, productive friction and why I wanted a collaborator—not something that would simply write my essays.…