Archive - The KO Insights Report

Beyond #Blessed: A Tech Humanist's Guide to Rethinking Digital Age Gratitude

On digital performativity, mindful appreciation, and maintaining our humanity in an era of optimized thankfulness and an automated world

Nov 27 •

February 2024

October 2023

Tech Humanism, not tech optimism

Why today's human lives matter, and why we can't meaning up to machines.

Oct 17, 2023 •

March 2023

Machines vs. meaning

Our minds are wired around our mortality, and to imagine other mortal minds

Mar 28, 2023 •

January 2023

Why Strategic Optimism is still our best approach for 2023 (and beyond)

We need to give it a chance to pull us where we want to go

Jan 19, 2023 •

A Chat with KateBot

KateBot on: Is AI making us rethink what it means to be human?

Jan 10, 2023 •

See what the argument is

Intellectual rigor as a habit

Jan 5, 2023 •

Some of my favorite non-book reading

Jan 4, 2023 •

Resolution(s) and Clarity

Perhaps it’s no coincidence that we use the word “resolutions” to mean those goals to which we resolve ourselves for the year, while “resolution” can…

Jan 3, 2023 •

December 2022

How to read — like, a lot.

Like, 100 books a year. Or more. As much as you want! I break down the systems and approach that work for me.

Dec 29, 2022 •

November 2022

Industrial-strength responsibility, or: what Twitter and travel have in common

Whether protecting natural resources or freedom of speech, individuals must act responsibly, but more of the burden falls to industry — and even more to…

Nov 30, 2022 •

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