Authentic Attention in the Agentic Age
Capturing attention online has, perhaps, never been easy. How do we responsibly bid for attention in an age where agents are flooding the inboxes of the people we may want to reach?
Liv Erickson
Can AI Help us Quantify Culture's Influence on our Perception of Self?
In the year since initially building the foundations of the Data Introspection Project and building out a practice of personal archival and data tooling, I have been considering what artifacts and purpose might emerge from the idea of taking a data-driven approach to the awareness of one's identity.
Accepting Influence
We influence, and are influenced. It is critical that we are able to choose whose influence we allow in. Recently, I've very quickly realized that I'd rather live in the world envisioned by the Anna Wintours than the Elon Musks.
On Gender Dynamics & Organizational Change in the AI Industry
I’ve been increasingly interested in the role gender dynamics play in organizational and institutional strategy, especially in the fields of data and artificial intelligence. More than ever, we can see the way that male gender expectations are codified in law and institutional values.
Claude Code is a Floor Bed
Like a floor bed, Claude Code gives you access to more freedom than the traditional software development process might have enabled. I decided to try out Claude for myself. Or at least, I would - if I were able to get a functioning account set up.
Is it AI Psychosis, or Algorithmic Dependency?
I take issue with the term 'AI Psychosis'. Calling this a form of "psychosis" removes the responsibility from those in positions of authority from their role in creating these systems.
Ambivalence
To exist - to be conscious - is to be acutely aware of the ambivalence of the human experience.
On Accomplishment, Work, Identity, Anxiety
I've started to notice that I feel pretty anxious when I'm not working. Truthfully, I think I've been this way for most of my life. From what my family tells me, I was a precocious child. Succeeding in highly structured, authority-driven contexts was presented to me as the only option.
The Archivist Within
Twitter played a significant community role for me when I first started out in my career. When Elon Musk purchased Twitter in 2022, I archived my tweet history and crafted a personal CRM. Today, I found my Twitter archive.
Mapping the Self: Data, Introspection, and the Future of Human-Centered Knowledge
Our digital lives are increasingly noisy, shaped by the gigabytes of information that we consume on a daily basis. The bits and bytes that make their way into our psychology via messages, articles, videos, shorts, and podcasts are algorithmically curated to latch into relevancy.