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July 21, 2026

Your North Star Comes Before AI

Many discussions about artificial intelligence begin with the wrong question. People ask, What can AI do? The more important question is, What is the human trying to accomplish? […]

July 19, 2026

Authorship in the Age of AI

  Every new technology seems to make us revisit old questions. Artificial intelligence is doing that now with authorship, because it has made it possible to separate the […]

July 16, 2026

Why Conversations Create Ideas

Most people imagine that ideas are born in solitude. We picture a writer sitting alone at a desk, a philosopher staring thoughtfully out a window, or an inventor […]

July 9, 2026

What Great Magazines Understood About Beauty

Spend a few minutes with a magazine from the 1930s through the 1960s and you’ll notice something different almost immediately. The illustrations invite you to pause before you […]