Stay Human: Authoring Your Mind in the AI Age
A practical guide to remaining the author of your own mind. How to use AI without losing the capacities that make you human — your judgment, your creativity, your sense of self.
13. Living With The Consequences
The machine can compute any choice but it cannot live with one. This chapter is about the ones you have to live with.
12. Who You Think With
Your thinking has always run on other minds. One of them is now a machine that agrees with you.
11. The Feeling Comes First
We were taught to take the emotion out of decisions. The machine was built that way—which is why committing is still ours. Every real decision still ends in a person.
10. The Decisions You're Making
Everything you control, you control through decisions—and at work, decisions are the actual product. The next four chapters are about what a decision is, what your body knows, who you think with, and how to own one, and how AI is changing our decisions without us being aware.
7. Knowing the Mind You're Working With
AI builds its model of you from what you type. But only the people who've watched you live can see what you hide from yourself.
6. The Roles That Change You
When we put AI into different roles, it changes how we use it. In this Chapter, the ones that change your sense of identity.
4. The Journey People Take
We move through five different places with AI: The Wake Up, The Groove, The Merge, The Breaking, The Rebuild.
2. The Right to a Future Tense
AI fills the gap when you don't know what you want. Most of us are still working that out — and that's okay.
1. Our Story
This is the story of how I kept the AI and dropped the humans, what it taught me, and how you can stay the author of your own mind with AI.