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The Streams and the River
Why more information has made direction harder—and what happens when systems begin to decide the flow
Mar 21
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Eric Wigart
The Moment Thinking Feels Finished
How fluent AI responses quietly shift where judgement happens
Mar 19
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Eric Wigart
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Wars Rarely End Where They Begin
When strategic calculations collide with identity, perception and history
Mar 7
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Eric Wigart
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When Tools Start Sounding Like Us
Why making AI more human feels efficient — and why that efficiency quietly changes how judgement works
Mar 5
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Eric Wigart
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Comfort Before Competence
How artificial intelligence, misaligned incentives and the seduction of comfort may be eroding judgement long before correction becomes inevitable.
Mar 3
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Eric Wigart
February 2026
Still Lost
Dreams, science fiction, and the discipline of not pretending to understand everything
Feb 24
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The Tool That Needs No Manual
The first technology without a learning curve—where competence and incompetence look identical
Feb 21
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What happens when a tool arrives with no instruction manual?
Not “no manual” in the sense that engineers forgot to ship a PDF, but no manual in the deeper sense: no barrier, no apprenticeship, no period of awkward…
Feb 20
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Eric Wigart
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The Architecture of Stability
Why economic elasticity depends on discipline, distribution, and domestic resilience
Feb 17
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Six Doors to the Unspeakable
Navigating Complexity from Firelight to AI
Feb 14
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Eric Wigart
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Hugging R2-D2 is fine. Asking it who it is — less so.
There’s nothing wrong with liking your tools. Things get interesting when they start sounding like they like you back. A brief reflection on AI…
Feb 10
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Eric Wigart
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Stop Calling It Hallucination
Why a human metaphor is distorting how we understand AI failure
Feb 8
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Eric Wigart
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