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Wait, Are We Okay?

A place to pause and think about what’s happening around us, from technology and mental health to community and civic life. A space for making meaning in a rapidly changing world.

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Sweatpant-Jeans & AI Chatbots

Convenience culture is rewiring us.

Let’s Talk About AI Shame

And how AI is impacting norms, culture, and behavior in young people’s lives

Purpose Is a Key Driver for Gen Z

How growing up during "unprecedented times" shaped our expectations.

Contact Is Cheap. Connection Is Chosen.

How practicing micro-connections might help us rebuild what convenience quietly took away.

Re-Learning What Human “Connection” Really Means in the Age of AI

Six lessons on trust, agency, and relationship-building we can’t afford to ignore.

The False Choice Between “Going Analog” and Embracing Tech Innovation

Navigating tech fatigue and the AI era.

Introducing: Wait, Are We Okay?

A place to pause and think about what’s happening around us — from technology and mental health to community and civic life.

AI is Easy. Thinking is Hard. Why Gen Z Must Choose Intention Over Convenience.

How mental noise, burnout, and over reliance on AI is shaping the next generation.

“Fun prank: make people study for 16 years then replace them with AI.”

I stopped mid-scroll when I saw that meme yesterday.

Are any of us living in the same reality anymore?

Social media was supposed to open the world to us. Instead it has closed our minds and is shrinking our world with every scroll.

Have we failed young people by teaching them to be empathetic?

Thoughts on empathy as young people coming of age in an unprecedentedly dark and confusing information ecosystem...

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