Essays
Thinking out loud
Honest observations on AI and work. No hype, no hand-wringing. Just what it costs us when we don't pay attention.
AI changes how we work. It also changes how we think, decide, and notice. These essays look at the second part. Where judgment holds and where it slips. What practitioners discover once the novelty fades. What research says about attention, cognition, and the slow work of staying good at what you do. Each piece comes from practice, conversation, and the questions that keep surfacing inside the Suon community.
What You Choose Not to Automate
What competent AI users refuse to delegate reveals more than any adoption metric. The best relationship with a powerful tool is knowing where to stop.
Why I Let AI Program My Presentations
When AI collapses creation time, the real work reveals itself. Formatting was never knowledge work. Thinking was. What changes when the packaging disappears.
Same Machine, Different Courage
When everyone has the same AI, the differentiator is not the tool. It is what you face about your own thinking. AI homogenization is a mirror, not a threat
The Bottleneck Is Us: What AI Reveals About Humans
AI is not an external threat to cognition but the completion of a project already underway. The real gap is between technological power and human growth.
The Wrong Room: Where AI Decisions Go Astray
AI decisions get made in boardrooms and IT departments. The knowledge of where AI could actually help lives three floors down.
The Curious Case of the AI Hangover
AI fatigue is real. Extended AI sessions create a cycle of craving and depletion your brain was not built for. Why AI burnout happens and what to do.
Struggling with your relationship with AI? Maybe it's you.
Your AI relationship reveals more about you than the technology. How personality traits from introversion to openness shape your AI interactions.
Ancient Practices Countering Our Modern Attention Crisis
Ancient contemplative practices return as focus duration collapses from 2.5 minutes to 47 seconds. Here's what millennia-old wisdom offers today.
What AI Reveals About How We Think
Even experts struggle to instruct AI. The problem is tacit knowledge: the things you know but have never put into words.
Is AI making us lazy thinkers?
AI cognitive atrophy is real. When convenience replaces effort, mental muscle weakens. Research on desirable difficulty shows what we risk and what to do.
The Allure of Shortcuts in the AI Era
The AI productivity trap is real. When speed replaces struggle, you lose the resilience and creativity that built your expertise. The hidden costs of AI.
