Essay·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
Construct
Social presence
Video rooms, trust, and the cost of mediated company.
6 pieces
Essay·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.
Nou Heravi
Brief·6 min
Notification debt: the invisible cognitive tax
Every unread badge is a half-open loop. The cost is not the glance. It is the residue in working memory.
Brief·6 min
Empathy at scale: what chatbots cannot borrow
Language models can produce caring sentences. Empathy, in the human literature, is not only sentences.
Brief·6 min
When seeing is no longer enough
As synthetic audio and video fool casual viewers, trust becomes a practised skill — not a default of perception.
Essay·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.
Nou Heravi