Insights & perspectives

Cut-and-paste began as a physical editing technique. Writers and editors literally cut text with scissors and rearranged it with glue. This required reading, understanding, and deliberate reorganization of ideas.

In When Probability Speaks, I explored how truth and language intertwine when probability begins to define meaning. This article continues that exploration, focusing on how our ways of writing and thinking are being reshaped by the systems we use.

Truth today is weighted by probability. It affects how we interpret the world, and how we sound when we try to describe it.

We often speak about sustainability in terms of climate, energy, and economy. But how sustainable is our ability to think? As both systems and brains are shaped by the same logic, a gap emerges between what we know, what we believe we know, and what we no longer have the mental endurance to understand.

Cognitive resilience is a dynamic state that enables us to handle complexity and change. It emerges at the intersection of fragmented attention, parallel pathways of thought, and humility before the limits of knowledge. By understanding the impact of micro-time, practicing redundancy in reasoning, and reflecting on what we cannot yet see, we build a structure that strengthens both individuals and organizations.

We are increasingly outsourcing our thinking to technology. What started as a complement has now become execution: language models and AI tools draft emails, propose decisions, and deliver arguments on our behalf.

A clear shift in human interaction shows how conversations increasingly take place with AI rather than with people. Availability, confirmation, and the absence of friction make AI interactions often feel more rewarding than human ones.

We build systems to help us think, but in the same process, those systems change how we think. AI is no exception. What begins as support for analysis and decision-making can, over time, become a steering factor—not because the technology takes over, but because our own frames of reference gradually shift.