We can actually live in an effortless society.
Where the law is unwritten but deeply understood: protect what is fragile, nurture what is growing, and defend what is just.
Because in this society, to be human is to be valued.
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Narcissism isn’t leadership.
It’s time we take these patterns of behavior with the maturity the situation requires.
Humanity is at the brink of suffering in irreparable ways because of it.
P.S. I left you a few links in the comments.
https://www.cato.org/blog/trump-has-cut-legal-immigration-more-illegal-immigration
Trump has cut legal immigration more than illegal immigration, as I predicted. While illegal entries have fallen, they continued a prior trend, falling more before he came back. Meanwhile, Trump has drastically cut legal entries, reversing the prior upward trend. www.cato.org/blog/trump-h...
Before we accept a future where intelligence is measured, priced, and distributed like a utility, we should explore our willingness to neglect the most important part of our very existence.
...Continue reading my new article on Substack:
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"Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope."
It’s been quite the timeline writing two books at once...
I think I'll release them as sisters... Yin and yang... One telling the story of humanity from the inside... The other protecting humanity at large.
I’m just a human trying to never, ever forget that. 🤍
Our humanity is the most sophisticated architecture.
It’s the beginning and the end of all creation.
What AI can’t touch.
It’s something we can choose to protect, nurture, and pass on.
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We won’t need just better leadership. We will need deeper leadership.
We’re inheriting not just the flaws of past ways of leading, but the responsibility to contain spaces that those in it need to survive.
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lNone of this is normal. And certainly none of it is good.
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Invisible emotional labor burns through faster than cash. No late hire or heroic sprint can compensate for a leader who hasn’t matured into the scale they’re asking their company to hold.
Leadership maturity relies on agency.
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Thursday’s are better with happy jumping baby goats 😃
(below an image of Pedro Pascal) “I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” - Pedro Pascal
AI isn’t exposing human irrelevance, but forcing us to reach a new level of human completeness.
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At some point, it becomes unavoidable: scaling intelligence is no longer the challenge, scaling humanity is.
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My Substack essay “The Case for Scaling Humanity” is available now: open.substack.com/pub/humanasu...
Bruce Springsteen Says His Upcoming Land of Hope and Dreams Tour ‘Is Going to Be Political’.
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"Initially they had fewer than a dozen people who volunteered as delivery drivers; now they have about 130..."
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We live in different versions of humanity.
We’ve spent decades building systems that scale intelligence, but we haven’t built anything that reliably scales human maturity.
AI literacy will not fix something more foundational: Human literacy.
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Unequivocally, introspection is non-negotiable if we want to act as healthy humans in a world that is becoming more complex and unpredictable. Lack of introspection is not a strength. Here's what it means for leadership, and the better alternative.
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Leadership is in danger of extinction.
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I stopped assuming good intentions a long time ago. I now collect evidence.
This blog is as brilliant as settling.
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“Collectivity must be based on respect for the individual; diversity is a personal feature"
- Carlos Cruz-Diez
