Mentally Ill?

Mental-health diagnoses and reported disability are rising at astonishing rates. But are we witnessing an epidemic of psychiatric disease, or...
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Fear Effects

When the body becomes alarmed, the mind looks for an explanation—and often an enemy. Pausing, calming down and looking for...
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Spotting Source: The Ability to See Where Things Come From

A person cannot remain in command of his life unless he can recognize intentions, trace effects to their causes and...
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Why Can AI Pass Our Tests?

AI can now produce many of the answers we use to measure education. That raises a more important question than...
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The Enemy

When we do not know another person’s intention, we often fill in the blank ourselves. If we assign a bad...
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Was the Labor Ever the Art?

AI threatens jobs, status and established ways of working. Yet progress does not destroy the old craft. It forces both...
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Who Wrote This Article?

A machine can help produce an article, but it cannot decide why the article should exist. Authorship begins with intention,...
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What Matters Most—and Who Decides

Everything arrives on the same screen and demands the same attention. But some things matter far more than others. Reason...
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Responsibility Is Good News

Responsibility is not a sentence or a reason for shame. It is the discovery that there is something you can...
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Knowing, Thinking, and the Noise Between Them

Knowing can be quiet, while worry argues, repeats, and demands attention. By testing intuition against experience and reality, we gradually...
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