Not into AI? Let’s be friends & try something different.
January 2026 — Can you email me if any of this resonates with you?
Among all the thoughtful, well researched, brilliantly explained critiques of AI, I keep comng back to a simple aching thought:
Does the AI revolution actually make my friends and family happier?
I don’t see it. Or at least it’s a stark contrast to the joy of a 2005 iPod Shuffle.
Could something radically different from the dysfunction and depression of today’s tech actually… work? Even thrive? Become super popular and refreshing? A zig to a zag?
Imagine a parallel universe starting from that iPod Shuffle.
If any of the following adjectives resonate, will you please email me and say hello? I’d love to chat.
- Post internet
- Non-addictive
- Screen reader first
- Respectfully inflammatory
- Regional
- Informal conventions
- Less but better
- Just enough
- Well built
- Freedom from investors
- Privacy
- Extra-small to medium sized projects
- 4 day work week
(Credit to Terremoto for many of these work-in-progress words.)