AI & the Mind
I spend a lot of time thinking about AI and the mind and how these tools are changing the way people think, where the self stops and the system begins, and what that does to society and the economy. The practical version of this is how to wire AI into your own thinking so that it extends it rather than replaces it - what to hand over, what to keep doing yourself, and how to build something that makes you sharper over time instead of duller. Most of it lives in 2am voicenotes to my journal or in conversations with the few friends patient, crazy or wonderful enough to engage with my ideas - some of it ends up written down.
Some things I have written
19 AUG 2026Idea Loops in the Person, The Organisation, and the WorldThe companion piece to my Idea Loops framework.
27 JUL 2026The Extended Self: Everybody’s happy nowWhat happens when Claude helps author your goals, and what is the edge of a self? What should you be happy to outsource?
18 JUL 2026Writing in the Age of AIOn deciding which cognitive work to hand to an AI, which skills quietly atrophy when you do, and deliberately practising the ones worth keeping - through the lens of two very different writing processes.
15 JUL 2026Strange Loops, AI, and the TelosCould a language model have a self? What is a self? Humans can reach down and rewrite what they want, but a model's goals never pass through its self-understanding. Co-authored with Claude.
13 APR 2026Dionysian Energy or Apollonian Reason? Live in Fragments No Longer.The dichotomy, or complementarity, of the rational and the creative, through the lens of literature.
13 APR 2026Escapism In The ArtsA somewhat meanderingly long essay on the urge to escape selfhood, and art, religion, and intoxicants as doors in the wall - and how all of this is represented in the arts themselves.
My frameworks
Rougher and readier than I'd like - but the rough ideas go out as they are, or they never go out at all.
Eudaimonia & Hedonia with AIThe good life as a grid - growth against recharge, reason against energy - on top of the necessities of life, and what AI does to each cell. The cognition auditA framework I developed for what running my life through an AI is doing to my cognition, function by function, with the map explorable inside. The idea loopsHow ideas move through a mind, a company, and the world: AI takes over the connecting, humans keep the choosing and the leaps, and the boundaries between loops are made of taste.