Humanity

I recently discovered a fascinating prompt on the internet that transforms AI conversations into something resembling a soul-level coaching session. The concept is simple but profound: ask ChatGPT to use what it knows about you from your past conversations, or ask Claude to look into your conversation history, then feed it this framework. Watch it perform what the prompt calls “soul surgery”—a deep, unflinching analysis of your patterns, blind spots, and unconscious behaviors. ...

TLDR: Conservatives believe in jungle law (survival of the fittest), while socialists risk creating dependency We need a third way: guarantee human dignity while demanding everyone contribute more than they receive Five pillars—healthcare, food, shelter, education, and the obligation to give back more than you take—create a society that’s both more humane and more resilient than either extreme offers The Dead End of Left vs. Right We’re stuck in a tired debate. The right looks at society and sees the jungle—survival of the strongest, competition as the organizing principle, let the weak fall away. There’s an honesty to this: nature is brutal, competition drives evolution, comfort breeds weakness. ...

TLDR: Every morning you trust the floor exists without checking—that’s faith, not reason We’ve never met the number “2” or visited “the past,” yet base our lives on these abstractions Science celebrates these tools while ignoring they’re built on pure belief Project management taught me we always work backward from faith in an unseen future If we all share this foundational belief system, we should build societies that reflect it The Floor Beneath Your Feet You wake up. Your feet hit the floor. No structural analysis, no existential crisis, no flashlight to confirm reality. Just pure, unconscious faith that the world continues to exist between yesterday’s last glance and this morning’s first step. ...

There’s a phrase in Latin that refuses to let us hide: hic et nunc—here and now. Whatever your story—your religion, your cosmology, your philosophy of where souls come from or where they’re headed—today you are a human among humans. You woke up inside this species, on this planet, with agency. That is enough to give you a duty. Respect the origin story. Respect the destination. But protect the present. I’m convinced of something simple: if, by whatever cosmic lottery, your consciousness ended up in a living human, then you are responsible for what happens to us—now. Not responsible for everything, but responsible to someone. Responsible for the choices you touch, the systems you influence, the harms you prevent, the goods you can advance. ...

As a father of teenagers, I’ve been thinking hard about what skills they’ll actually need in a world where AI is everywhere. Not the hype, not the fear-mongering—just practical skills that will serve them well whether they’re applying to college, starting their first job, or building something of their own. This guide is for teens, but also for parents who want to understand what’s worth focusing on. It’s based on research, but written in plain language with real exercises they can actually do. ...