Cover of The Distracted

AI Is a Ladder. It Is Also a Couch.

30 May 2026 There is a small moment that now happens millions of times a day. We sit down to think. Then we ask the machine to think first. The blank page is rude, after all. It just sits there, white and smug, waiting for us to discover whether we have an idea. AI is friendlier. It offers ten ideas before our coffee has finished negotiating with our nervous system....