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,…
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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…
AI Agents Without Soul Drift: A Guide for Small Businesses and Nonprofits
Small businesses and nonprofits are about to make a familiar mistake with AI agents. They are going to confuse faster with better. AI agents can help. They can sort emails,…
Future of AI: When Smart Finally Gets Smart
For decades, we have called things “smart” that were not really smart. And I’m not talking about your brother’s kids. I say that as someone who spent years designing, programming,…
AI Governance Has a Trust Problem
Dario Amodei’s recent essay on AI policy is worth reading, even if you do not agree with every part of it. I found myself agreeing with most of it. The…
How to Write a Blog with AI Without Losing Your Voice
Many people start with AI by typing, “Write me a blog about…” The tool will produce something clean, structured, and usable. The problem is that it often misses the most…
Why AI Still Needs Your Brain
AI has gotten much better than it used to be. A few years ago, hallucinations were one of the biggest concerns. You could ask AI to write something useful, and…