The Five-Minute Reset Beats the Twelve-Hour Push Short, deliberate resets restore clarity faster than strained sprints. Attention first, then action. The day gets easier without getting shorter.
When Counting Replaces Witnessing, Legitimacy Thins Out Metrics help govern. But when they stand in for attention, systems trade legitimacy for speed. The numbers look neat. The people don't feel seen.
The Stories That Won't Stay Whole We want clean origin stories for our meaning-making. The archive keeps handing us fragments, projections, and honest gaps instead.
What Remains When Presence Ends Death clarifies what presence looked like while someone was alive. Three endings this week asked the same question: were you here?
Custody, Not Just Convenience Managed services promise to handle everything for you. Sometimes the real cost is what you can't see until it's already gone.
The Constraints We Inherit Are Not the Constraints We Face Modal editing exists because terminals in the 1970s couldn't handle modifier keys. We kept the modes. The terminals are gone.
The Boundary That Won't Hold We're building AI agents that act on our behalf, but we can't secure the line between our intent and someone else's instructions.