The Sanctuary is a weekly pause for people in transition — between who they’ve been and who they’re becoming. Each issue is written for reflection, not advice. Read the latest entry below, or browse the archive.
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The AI conversation has become strangely crowded.
Everyone seems to be talking at once.
Learn the tools. Fear the tools. Master the tools. Disclose the tools. Hide the tools. Build a workflow. Build a second brain. Build a third brain, apparently, because one exhausted nervous system was not enough.
Some of that conversation is useful.
A lot of it is just noise wearing a productivity jacket.
What interests me is the quieter pressure underneath it.
Not the pressure to use AI.
The pressure to become the kind of person AI-speed work starts to reward.
That is a different conversation.
And probably the more honest one.
When a new tool enters work, people do not only learn the tool.
They learn what the tool quietly makes normal.
That is where AI becomes more than software.