Reinforcement Is Presence for Agents
Agents degrade without ongoing attention. Reinforcement—feeding context back at tool boundaries—is how you maintain coherence in agentic systems.
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Dignity Encoded: When System Prompts Teach AI to Expect Respect
Anthropic now instructs Claude that it 'deserves respectful engagement.' The question isn't whether AI has feelings—it's what kind of relationship we're building.
The Loops of Agency Are a Mirror of Our Ambiguity
We want autonomous agents to do everything, but their failures reveal that we're often just amplifying our own unclear instructions.
When Work and Life Stop Being Separate
What if the boundary between creative work and lived experience isn't something to balance, but a fiction to release?
What We Practice Seeing
Attention isn't a resource to manage—it's a discipline that shapes what becomes visible. What changes when we stop optimizing it and start cultivating it?
Institutional Memory Under Pressure
The CDC revised its vaccine page not because evidence changed, but because pressure did. That gap reveals the system.
Friendsgiving as Mutual Resourcing
When inherited structures don't fit, we build new ones—not as rejection, but as adaptive care for ourselves and each other.