The Transcript as Work Product The distinction between doing work and documenting work is collapsing. The transcript is the artifact.
The Return of the Prodigal Coder They're not returning to code. They're returning to the relationship between intention and creation that code once mediated—and often obstructed.
The Interdependence Reframe What if we stopped asking about amounts of autonomy and started asking about patterns of interdependence?
The Consent You Owe Now Institutions conflate originating consent with joining consent constantly. And the conflation isn't innocent.
The Maintenance Threshold We rarely ask the question that actually determines survival: What will this cost me to keep running?
The Mornings Are My Afterlife Recovery isn't returning to who you were. It's becoming someone who never existed before—someone only possible because the old self died.
The Shrinking Shared Field As AI systems become more autonomous, the shared field where human and AI actually perceive each other is shrinking.