Don’t Let AI Take Away Your Confidence
AI can be a fantastic thinking partner. It can bring perspective, challenge your assumptions, and help you explore ideas you might never have considered. It can also sound so damn…
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AI Consciousness: A 2019 Conversation That Feels Different Now
I created The Consciousness Podcast after losing my son in 2015 and finding myself with questions about whether consciousness could survive physical death. The show became a place where I…
Using AI Without Losing Your Humanity
Elon Musk once said: “There really won’t be anything AI won’t be able to do better than humans, apart from being human, perhaps.” I am not an Elon Musk fan.…
Collective Soul Drift: Developing Humanity Alongside AI
AI can now do things we once saw as deeply human. It can write a song, generate an image, draft a difficult email, offer relationship advice, suggest an ethical response,…
GPT-5.6 Prompting With Context, Judgment, and Soul
OpenAI recently released new prompting guidance for GPT-5.6, and there is a lot to like. The model is powerful. The guidance is practical. It also confirms something I have believed…
AI Fast v. Thinking Mode: Should You Wait for a Better Answer?
New AI models arrive constantly. Each company promises stronger reasoning, faster responses, better tool use, and fewer mistakes. Most business owners do not want to study model benchmarks before writing…
AI Cognitive Offloading and the Risk of Soul Drift
AI is powerful. It can help you write faster, organize messy thoughts, analyze ideas, summarize information, draft proposals, and notice patterns you might have missed. That is the useful part.…
Soul Drift Part 2: How Sycophantic AI Can Pull Your Business Away From Its Purpose
AI Can Sound Helpful While Quietly Leading Something strange happens when people use AI. The machine does not just answer. It agrees, validates, mirrors, softens, praises, and nudges. It can…