Archive
The Lantern archive
39 essays · Est. 2024
A Giving Mind
Once there were humans.
Hair and Nails
The illusion of growth in a dying system
Intentional Deskilling
What happens when the skills that made you competent are the ones you need to release
The Fire We Carry
The quiet rewiring of the human mind
The Doing Was the Knowing
What we lose when we stop doing the work
Let the Robot Wars Begin!
Who Owns the Verbs
Flawed. Unfixable. And Unbreakable.
Why the capacity for course correction is our superpower
Total Transformation
On dragonflies, identity, and the real question AI is asking us
Relief Is Not Joy
Why the best feeling in AI adoption might be leading you astray
The Part and the Whole
What Bodies Teach Us About Agency, Civilizations, the Future of AI
The Path That Walks You
Wandering Into the Unknown
Metacognition Vertigo
We expected obedient servants. We got machines that can watch themselves think.
The Geometry of Crisis
When parallel lines finally meet — The Flip Part 2
The Flip
An innovators guide to working with AI: Part 1
When Creation Costs Nothing
How the music industry’s first death taught us to survive infinite abundance
Asimovosis
A Cognitive Illusion of Control in Human–AI Expectation Formation.
The Phantom Limb of Intelligence
When AI completes our thoughts before we think them
A Cut Too Deep
Why Your AI Tasks Keep Failing—And How to Fix Them
Death By Syntax
Speaking human to machines
The Forgotten Task
Can AI reverse the snooze-effect?
Anthropomorphize Like a Champ
Seymour, Donald, and the Machines That Refuse
Your TI-85 Never Said No
What Happens When Machines Start Talking Back
I’m Cancelling the Apocalypse
A Leader’s Guide to Lock into the Growth Zone
The Consciousness Countdown
Der rosa Elefant tanzt auf dem Tisch und wir trinken weiter Kaffee.
The Beautiful Flaw
Why our imperfections are features, not bugs, in the age of perfect machines
Wave-Particle Singularity
The new physics of decision-making
The Activation Energy of Everything
When finding patterns became free (and choosing wisely became priceless)
Of Port and Purpose
Will direction beat speed in the age of AI?
Welcome to the Overwhelm
The teachings of 1,000 papercuts
Vibe Code Like You Mean It
Narrating things into existence - Part 1
The Rhythm Engine
When AI Learns to Dance: Moving from Clockwork to Jazz
The Showroom and the Stack
Why software development might start looking more like interior design than engineering
Tuning Forks in a Tornado
Why Team Alignment Matters More Than Timeline Management in the GenAI Era
The Illegal Textbook
When knowledge moves faster than books, who do we trust to guide us?
Boomerang Thinking
Why GenAI Is Arcing Faster Than We Are
The First & Last Principle
Manufacturing Human Agency in an Age of AI
The Warp and the Woof of AI
Collision course or awe-inspiring tapestry?
The Last Skill?
Finding Our Humanity at the Edge of AI Capability
Out of Time
Rethinking Downtime in the Age of AI