Rebuilding humanity in the age of artificial intelligence.
The next ten years will decide what kind of species we become. This book is an argument for what to do about it — and a record of trying.
Every few centuries a technology arrives that re-writes what it means to be human. The printing press. Electricity. The internet. We are living inside the next one. The question is not whether AI will reshape us, but who we choose to become while it does.
Where we are, how we got here, and why this decade is the hinge. A history of how technology re-shapes generations — and what the current shape is doing to ours.
"A million monkeys with a million typewriters were supposed to be a thought experiment. Then we built them."
— from "The Typing Monkeys"
What it would take to meet this moment. The institutions we'd have to build. The credentials we'd have to throw out. The young people who are already doing it.
"Stephanie was nineteen years old when she started a club at her college. By the time she was thirty, that club had a thousand chapters and had taught a generation how to teach itself."
— from "What Stephanie Did"
The shape of organizations that can move at the speed of the moment. Honeycombs instead of hierarchies. Skunk works instead of strategy decks. The practice, not the theory.
"A honeycomb is the strongest structure per gram of material in the natural world. It also happens to be the only one built by a thousand small things acting in concert without anyone in charge."
— from "The Honeycomb"
A new chapter every few weeks, sent the morning it goes live. No marketing, no roundups — just the manuscript as it's written.
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