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.
Topaz Adizes
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?
The Cost of Perfect Answers
When we turn to AI for connection, efficiency, advice, even empathy, we are being confronted with something deeper: what do we expect from our relationships?
Beware the Personal God
So the question isn’t how AI will take us over. The question is: will we even notice when we’ve already handed it the keys to who we think we are?