Toolmakers keep promising us time savings. What they usually sell is a new place to spend our attention.

This is Part 1 of a three-part series. The spine is simple: tools compete for attention, infrastructure disappears from attention, and AI’s endgame is not “assistant” but “ambient.” Parts 2 and 3 will take that

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Therapy Is Polarizing: AI Commoditizes Talk Support, Humans Concentrate Into Consequence-Bearing Care

People didn’t “switch to AI therapy” because a model suddenly became wiser than a clinician. They switched because the product shape changed. When you zoom in on real behavior, three motives show up again and

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