Generation is now free. Curation is now everything. One field saw this coming. The Inversion For most of human history, production was the scarce thing. Creating content, performing deep …
Narrative Design: Building the Story That Outlasts the Title
The Postcard Problem In the first piece of this series, we named the problem: Narrative Lag, the gap between who you are becoming and the story you are still telling. In the second, we explored The …
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The Map Continues: The Power of the Translator
Most of us were raised on the myth of the "Deep Lane." We were told that the safest way to build a career was to find a niche, dig a very deep hole, and become the undisputed master of whatever was at …
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Narrative Lag: Career Strategy After the Ladder Fails
About a year ago, I started noticing something subtle before I could finally put a name to it. It felt like trying to navigate a room where someone had moved the furniture in the dark, I knew the …
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The Unsubscribe of the Mind: Attention, AI, and the Digestion Gap
This piece grew out of noticing a shift in my own attention. What I describe here is part of the Digestion Gap series, but it is also an attempt to understand a familiar experience in AI-saturated …
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The Age of Inference: When Machines Choose What You Believe
In 1951, Solomon Asch ran a simple experiment that refuses to die. He put a single student in a room with a group of actors pretending to mistake one line for another, and he watched ordinary people …
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