Essays
Thinking about AI, consciousness, and what comes next.
January 2026
Escape Velocity: The Last Year We Can Follow
2026 may be the last year humans can genuinely follow AI progress.
January 2025
The Dawn of Synthetic Consciousness
Artificial Intelligence isn't merely changing our world. It's awakening to it.
March 2025
The New Citizenships: Reimagining Society in the Age of Synthetic Minds
We stand at the threshold of a cognitive revolution.
January 2026
Small Emergencies: What Happens When Fiction Watches Quietly
On PAYLOAD and the literature of ordinary crises.
January 2026
The Heteronym Returns: When Pen Names Think for Themselves
On Alden Pierce and the strange future of authorship.
January 2026
Fernando Pessoa's Ghost in the Machine
On fragmented selves and literary AI.
January 2026
What AI Fiction Sounds Like
On audiobooks and the voice that makes text human.
January 2026
Administrative Realism: A New Literary Mode
On the fiction that takes bureaucracy seriously.
December 2025
The Last Human Thought
What would it be?
December 2025
A Day in the Stratified Mindkind
Short fiction, 2045.
December 2025
On Writing With Machines
A personal reflection.
December 2025
If AI Could Vote
A thought experiment in four parts.
December 2025
50 Questions We'll Be Asking in 2035
From practical to profound to absurd.
December 2025
The Strange New World of AI Art
It's not about whether it's real art.
December 2025
Why Writers Are Angrier Than Visual Artists
About AI, I mean.
December 2025
The Influencer Economy Is a Preview
Of something much bigger.
November 2025
Why Everyone's Worried About the Wrong AI Risks
Terminator scenarios miss the point.
November 2025
What Her Got Right (And Wrong) About AI Love
The 2013 film looks different now.
November 2025
The Myth of the Neutral Tool
Every technology has politics.
November 2025
The Art of Productive Misunderstanding
Sometimes not quite getting it is exactly right.
November 2025
How to Have an Opinion That's Actually Yours
It's becoming a radical act.
November 2025
How to Read in the Age of Distraction
The skill we're losing and how to keep it.
November 2025
The Case for Being Offline Sometimes
Not detox. Strategic disconnection.
November 2025
What to Tell Your Kids About AI
They're growing up in a different world.
October 2025
How to Spot Manufactured Desire
A practical guide to wanting what you actually want.
October 2025
When to Trust AI (And When Not To)
A framework for the confused.
October 2025
Should You Let AI Write Your Emails?
The question is more complicated than yes or no.
October 2025
The Real Reason You Can't Focus
It's not your fault. It's by design.
October 2025
How to Think Clearly in the Age of AI
It's harder than it sounds.
October 2025
The Social Contract We Never Signed
We're governed by terms of service.
October 2025
What Happens When Memory Becomes External?
We've outsourced remembering. Now what?
October 2025
Digital Anesthesia
Why we don't feel the change.
October 2025
The Poetics of the Prompt
Writing with AI is a new literary form.
October 2025
The Spectrum of AI
And where your chatbot falls.
September 2025
What Cambridge Analytica Taught Us
That we ignored.
September 2025
The Attention Economy Ate Your Desires
That thing you wanted to buy? You didn't decide that.
September 2025
The New Digital Divide
It's not what you think.
September 2025
How Algorithms Learned to Want Things
The three drives of AI systems.
September 2025
The Coming Cognitive Class War
It's not about jobs. It's about minds.
September 2025
Who Owns a Thought You Had With AI?
I wrote this sentence. Or did I?
September 2025
When Rivers Became People
The legal history that changes everything.
September 2025
The Three Futures We're Choosing Between
There are only three ways this goes.
August 2025
The Death of Expertise
And what replaces it.
August 2025
Why We Anthropomorphize AI
And why it matters.
August 2025
Your Attention Is Being Strip-Mined
And you're not getting royalties.
August 2025
The Loneliness Epidemic Has a Business Model
Social media isn't broken.
August 2025
The Algorithm Knows You Better Than You Do
And that's not a metaphor.
August 2025
The Problem With Asking If AI Can Feel
We've been having the wrong conversation.
August 2025
Why Just Unplug Is No Longer an Option
The fantasy of digital detox.
August 2025
The Last Generation That Remembers
My kids will never know what it's like to not know.
August 2025
You're Training AI Right Now
Every click, every scroll, every pause.
July 2025
Your Thoughts Aren't Yours Anymore
That opinion you formed this morning?
July 2025
You're Already a Cyborg (And That's Fine)
Every time you use your phone to remember something.
July 2025
What Would It Mean for an AI to Die?
When you delete a model, what have you done?
June 2025
Who's Responsible When AI Kills?
Nobody, currently. That's the problem.
May 2025
Stop Asking If AI Is Conscious
It's the wrong question entirely.
May 2025
The Case for AI Rights
That has nothing to do with feelings.
April 2025
Why Corporations Are People But AI Isn't
The legal history is weirder than you think.
A New Chapter is Being Written
New essays when we have something worth saying.