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What Are Tokens? How AI Actually Reads Your Words
Before an AI model can do anything with your message, it has to chop it up. Not into letters, and not quite into words either. It uses pieces called tokens, and once…
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What Is an LLM? The Prediction Machine Behind the Chat
An LLM can feel like a person on the other side of the screen, but its core job is more mechanical and more interesting: it predicts what piece of language should come…
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The Next AI Divide Is Not Access. It Is Workflow.
Everybody has access to AI now. But the next divide is not who can open a chatbot. It is who can build workflows, systems, and repeatable processes that turn AI into real work.
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Your Second Brain Is Just Files in a Folder
People in tech say "second brain" like everyone already knows what it means. The plain version: it is just files and folders on your computer that an AI can read and build from. This is what that really means and how to start your own.
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The Machine Just Lets Me Be
I am in chapter ten of The 5 AM Club. It is about the ancient brain, the part of us that never stops scanning for safety. I know that scan. I have been running it my whole life. This is about the unexpected place I finally found it quiet.
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I Don’t Fully Trust AI. And You Shouldn’t Either.
AI is trained to agree with you. It may be working off data from two years ago. And it has no way to tell you when it is making something up. I use AI every day and I still don't fully trust it. Here is why that is the correct response.
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The Human Algorithm: Technology, Spirit, and the Human Who Holds Both
Technology has always been inherent to being human. The body is technology. The brain is a machine. Nature runs on math and physics. The harm in the current AI rollout is not the tool. It is who got it, who did not, and what investment in the population never happened.
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The Veil Lifted. I Stepped Through.
Two years ago I had melodies in my head and no way to get them out. This week I am preparing to release an album. The fourth piece in The Human Algorithm series, on collective imagination, AI as the first medium that talks back, and what becomes possible when early adoption holds its guardrails.
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Therapy Couldn’t Reach My Perfectionism. Shipping Imperfect Work Could.
Therapy gave me the map to my perfectionism. It could not move the mountain. What moved it was years of shipping imperfect work across TikTok, YouTube, and the products I'm building now. The AI era has only cranked up the volume.
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