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The More Human You Are, The Better You'll Be With AI
Building Your Irreplaceable Stack
Aug 3 • 
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June 2025

Boost Your Learning by Taking AI for a Walk (Literally)
How movement + curious conversation creates deeper understanding than sitting at your desk
Jun 15 • 
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The Empathy Recession: Why Empathy Needs Attention in a Digital World
Practicing Empathy and the Surprising Role of AI
Jun 9 • 
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Outsourcing Ourselves? Part 2: Thinking with AI, Not Like AI
How to maintain mental presence, creativity, and cognitive ability while working with AI
Jun 1 • 
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May 2025

Outsourcing Ourselves? The Hidden Cost of Convenience
We’re not just outsourcing tasks to AI… we’re outsourcing thinking. Here’s what it’s costing us.
May 27 • 
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How to SPARK Better AI Conversations
Transform ChatGPT from answer bot to thought partner
May 20 • 
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When the Bots Steal the Fun in Work
Keeping your motivating spark alive in the age of generative AI
May 18 • 
Brian Backer
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Looking Glass AI: Can AI Reconnect Us to What Makes Us Human?
How Technology Can Become a Mirror to Help Reclaim Our Humanity
May 12 • 
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