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The Performing Child
She is four years old. She is standing in the living room holding a plastic microphone, the kind that lights up when you press the button. Her mother’s…
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The Mirror That Learns
You open your phone first thing in the morning. Before your conscious mind has oriented to the day, the feed appears. And within seconds, you are looking at…
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The Trial That Names What We Already Know
A courtroom in Los Angeles spent six weeks arguing over something most of us could describe in ten seconds: you open Instagram to check one thing and 40...
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Your Body Knows It’s Hooked
A 20-year-old woman sits in a Los Angeles courtroom and testifies that Instagram got her at nine. By ten, she was cutting herself. By thirteen, her therapist...
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The Architecture of Loneliness
7 min read You wake up and the first thing you do is reach for your phone. Before your eyes have fully adjusted to the light, before you…
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Co-Creation With AI Is a Literacy We Do Not Have Yet
7 min read In the next decade, “AI collaboration” will become a subject in schools. Not “how to use ChatGPT” but something deeper: how to think alongside a…
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What We Feed AI Is What We Become
7 min read Here is a question nobody is asking: what does it mean to witness something into existence? We know this matters for children. A child who…
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Nostalgic for the Present
You are at the concert. The band is good. The crowd is alive. The lights sweep across thousands of faces and for a moment everyone is illuminated and…
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The Nervous System Was Not Designed for Infinity Scroll
You are lying in bed at 11:47 PM, promising yourself just five more minutes. Your thumb moves in the same small motion it has made approximately three thousand...
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The Loneliness of Being Constantly Connected
You are reachable right now. Someone could text you. Someone could tag you. Someone could send you a heart emoji at 2 AM and you would know within…