Stephen Reid

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Tool Shaped Objects In 1711, a toolmaker in Kyoto named Chiyozuru Korehide began forging kanna blades for the carpenters building the temples at Higashi Hongan-ji.

Tool Shaped Objects

Creative Machines

The left is missing out on AI As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right

The left is missing out on AI

AI power users can't stop grinding AI was meant to give us more time off, but instead many are finding it compels them to take on more and more work

AI power users can't stop grinding

The Human Alignment Problem What AI psychosis reveals about the real task of our time

The Human Alignment Problem

AI as Karmic Accelerator A Buddhist view on the AI Alignment Problem

AI as Karmic Accelerator

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new...

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it You're using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.

AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it

The Nectary

In Tech We Trust

The AI Transformation will kill the start-up as we know it. AI will reshape our institutions and ultimately kill the start-up as we know it. Business 3.0 and new structures like the RCO is a response - shift...

The AI Transformation will kill the start-up as we know it.

The End of Hoop Jumping On AI, the collapse of the credentialed path, and the terrifying gift of not knowing what you're for

The End of Hoop Jumping

11 Discoveries That Changed My Worldview | Frankly 113 (Recorded November 10th, 2025) In this episode, Nate weaves personal reflections into an exploration of the human predicament, unpacking a series ...

11 Discoveries That Changed My Worldview | Frankly 113

Ethereum: The Earth Computer

Philosophy | Open Civics is the worldview of a participatory civilization — OpenCivics Open Civics is based on a shared worldview that the well being of people, place and planet depends on taking care of common resources, systems, and...

Philosophy | Open Civics is the worldview of a participatory civilization — OpenCivics

Cosmo-localism Chapter 6, part 3 of Technological Metamodernism

Cosmo-localism is the topic of the latest chapter of Technological Metamodernism technologicalmetamodernism.substack.com/p/cosmo-loca...

Retrotopia FORWARD TO THE PAST The year is 2065. Decades ago, the…

Retrotopia

Apashe & Alina Pash - Kyiv This project was filmed in Ukraine during the war. The choir was recorded on a calm day, between nights of air raids and shelling. As I’m writing t...

Apashe & Alina Pash - Kyiv

Ireland Makes a Program Offering Basic Income for Artists Permanent After a successful three-year pilot, the country will continue to provide 2,000 artists with $1,500 per month

Ireland Makes a Program Offering Basic Income for Artists Permanent

Jhanas Are Human, Not Buddhist Christian mystics and Sufi masters found the same states. So did I.

Jhanas Are Human, Not Buddhist

Weavers by Aukai & Awarë [ Official Visualizer ] Weavers feat. Awarë from Aukai's album Apricity. Aukai https://www.aukaimusic.com https://www.instagram.com/aukaimusic Spotify: https://open.spo...

Weavers by Aukai & Awarë [ Official Visualizer ]

Technological Metamodernism, 6th Feb 2026

slides from a presentation I just gave to Life Itself lifeitself.org docs.google.com/presentation...

Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading It's easier than ever to share ideas, yet some of the m…

Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading

Balance of power

In Correspondence #55 Plurality, ATProto and The Adolescence of Technology

just published my latest newsletter 🙈 stephenreid.substack.com/p/in-corresp...

Atmospheric Computing Cloud computing has been extremely successful, but it lost the values that drove personal computing. We can solve this by evolving forward.

Atmospheric Computing

Trust Fund

ActivityPub Over ATProto Thought experiment: how hard would it be to implement ActivityPub over ATProto? The answer might surprise you!

ActivityPub Over ATProto

A Regenerative Accelerationist Manifesto Navigating the Technocapitalist Endgame

A Regenerative Accelerationist Manifesto