Is AI emotional lock-in the competitive advantage tech companies need to make switching not only costly but emotionally painful and harder to regulate?
We coddiwomple towards a harmonious future in which AIs & humans form a mutually beneficial creative alliance by exploring the context in which we all live, and wondering who to place our faith in.
In the latest episode of Pathfinders Podcast, we wonder what are we saving time for? Who and what are we borrowing the saved time from? What does this mean for the tech we build?
A eulogy for the blank page that reflects on how its imminent demise at the hands of magic AI buttons might affect our creative processes.
We try to escape the AI rat race by slowing down & playing with time. We listen for storms brewing in the distance while harvesting corn that might reveal diverse rainbow visions of our tech futures.
In product design, the methodologies you're likely using don't typically invite you to think outside the present. Let's explore how nurturing a curiosity for the past and thinking further into the future can help you deepen your understanding of people's needs and design more resilient solutions.
In the latest episode of Pathfinders Podcast, we experiment with woo prompting and computationally ticking AI assistants to become questioning rather than just answering machines.
While uncle Sam, Mark & co. need you to feed their AI golem armies, we share recipes for home-made software, look for plurality & weirdness online, challenge AI companies to think different, and more.
In the latest episode of Pathfinders Podcast, we explore paths to online spaces where we can be weird and playful together so that we can co-create a more diverse and resilient tech future.
This new moon, we counter the AI-assisted dematerialisation of the workforce and disembodiment of knowledge by delving into weirdness, grandmotherly wisdom, communal gardens, a new podcast, and more.
At Tethix, we planted a new podcast for all wondering wanderers, eager to explore paths to better tech futures, together. Tune in every waning moon as I reflect on the lunacy of tech in the company of my fellow firekeeper Mathew Mytka.
This Earth Day, I see yet another "Severe weather" alert on my phone. On LinkedIn, the algorithm keeps boosting the usual posts about productivity and growth, while green companies brag about using resource-hungry LLMs, and every text field on the web now seems eager to rewrite my thoughts using AI…