History
What We Build Reveals What We Worship
So what does it say that OpenAI’s models wouldn’t shut down, but others did?
Topaz Adizes
Topaz Adizes is the author of 12 Questions for Love and the founder of The Skin Deep, an Emmy-award-winning experience design studio exploring relationships through intimate, structured dialogue.
Love
The Fear Behind the Love
We talk a lot about the fear of losing love. But there’s another fear that’s rarely named: The fear of being loved.
A.I.
The Superpower of AI Isn't Knowledge. It's Time
AI isn’t just changing how we do things—it's shifting how one relates to time itself. And when your relationship to time changes, everything else follows: money, power, attention, even our sense of who we are.
Questions
Don’t Fill the Space—Open It
A good question can change a conversation. And a conversation can change a life.
Questions
The Question Makes the Difference
The real issue is we rarely question the question. We take them at face value— often inherited from others, half-formed or just lazy accepting what is before us. We don’t stop to ask: is this even the proper most useful frame?
Leadership
Trust is the Currency of Success
We think leadership is about being seen. We think teamwork is about showing up. Not anymore.
Communication
Don’t Be on the Same Page
The goal isn’t to agree on everything. That kind of forced sameness backfires into a false sense of cohesion. The goal is to make space for difference. To develop fluency in one another’s inner world. To build a shared context—so the tension is generative, not destructive.
What a Reddit AI Experiment Got Right—And What We're Still Missing
We should be concerned. Of course. But if all we see is the breach of ethics, we’re missing something much bigger.
Distance Is Not the Problem
We keep treating the digital space like a cheap copy of the physical one. Trying to squeeze eye contact through pixels. Mistaking silence for absence. Forgetting that intimacy is not proximity—it’s presence.
Discomfort
Discomfort is the doorway.
What are you holding together with pins and duct tape just to avoid the shatter? What truth are you dodging to preserve the illusion? Because what needs to grow in your life may require something else first: collapse.
The Name You Give Yourself
Your name is more than a simple label—it’s an incantation, subtly casting a spell that frames your limits and defines your power. Each name holds an entire landscape of possibility. Change it, and the terrain transforms. New paths appear, old barriers dissolve.
A Compass is better than a Flashlight
Cling to your mission statement, and you risk walking into storms you didn’t see coming. What once was a beacon becomes a blinder. You think you’re following your north star—but it’s yesterday’s star, yesterday’s sky. What if, instead, you carried a mission question?