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Essay
22 Aug 2026
12 min
The age a model assigns you
When software estimates how fast a brain is ageing, a private process becomes a score. Identity and threat follow the number — not, automatically, the tissue.
Nou Heravi
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Essay
21 Aug 2026
11 min
Sleep that does not have to be earned
A wearable that shifts REM without a pill is a real, early result. What it is not, yet, is a new moral of the night.
Essay
21 Aug 2026
11 min
The classroom without a pocket
Phone bans are not a morality play. They are a mixed empirical literature about attention, equity, and what a developing control system is asked to practise.
Essay
28 Jul 2026
8 min
The mind that outsources thinking
When fluent machines answer before we finish forming the question, judgment does not vanish overnight. It thins — rehearsal by rehearsal — until expertise becomes a feeling we can no longer check.
Essay
26 Jul 2026
7 min
Habit is not a feature — it is a capture strategy
Product teams celebrate retention. Psychologists study habit. When those languages blur, design starts optimising for compulsion while calling it care.
Essay
24 Jul 2026
6 min
When search replaces memory, what do we still know?
External memory is ancient — notebooks, maps, other people. Instant search changes the bargain: we outsource not only facts, but the paths that once made facts ours.
Essay
22 Jul 2026
8 min
When the machine becomes company
Always-available agents do not only answer questions. They enter the attachment system — quietly changing who we reach for first when the mind will not settle.
Research
1 Jul 2026
6 min
Screens and teenage sleep: what the mixed science actually says
Public debate treats “screen time” as one exposure. The literature is more granular — evening light, interruption, and displaced opportunity — and still serious enough for design.
Essay
28 Jun 2026
7 min
Why video calls drain social attention faster than rooms do
Back-to-back video days often feel heavier than rooms. A theoretical account names the load. It is not a universal law of the medium.