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The Annual Digital Fast: How to regain cognitive liberty, and keep it
Your personal guide to our annual Communal Digital Fast
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Feb 18
A Guide to Surviving the Great Forgetting: How to (re)train your memory
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Feb 13
When gossip rules the world, and snakes eat their own tales
The other day I talked to a man who believes the Earth is flat.
Feb 4
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On Letters: How (and why) to write for an audience of one
The written thumbprint, famous excerpts (what to write), and a "Library of Letters"
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Jan 28
The Nursery & the Machine: From IVG to internet tirades
How to safeguard and restore our most fundamental connections
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Jan 7
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A crisis of beauty, and a response
A monastery is rising amid the mountains of Wyoming.
Dec 29, 2025
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Peco
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Can Humanity Trust TIME's "Person" of the Year?
From blackboards to black vestments, experts' "blah blah" words, inevitability, and digital theophanies
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Dec 16, 2025
The Generative Life: Learning Begins at Home
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Dec 5, 2025
The Cartographer of Uncharted Waters
A Reflection on Peco Gaskovski's Exogenesis
Published on Beyond the Bookshelf
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Dec 2, 2025
First Things & A Simple and Sane Christmas
What to skip, what to show up for, and how to keep things slow
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Nov 28, 2025
A (Visual) Human Creed: How to Unmachine Your Life, the Universe, and Everything
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Nov 17, 2025
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Doomer Optimism Gathering Keynote Address: A (Visual) Human Creed
How to Unmachine Your Life, the Universe, and Everything
Nov 17, 2025
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Peco
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Ruth Gaskovski
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The Annual Walking Rebellion: Restoring the Mind at Three Miles an Hour
How to boycott the Machine in 10,000 easy steps
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Nov 3, 2025
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AI & Emerging Tech
God, godbots, and “friends”: Who we are depends on who is watching us
“Who we are depends on who is watching us.” – from Exogenesis by Peco
Oct 24, 2025
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The two ingredients that can make a thing seem human
Just in from the Guardian:
Oct 2, 2025
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Peco
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Can we cure AI demoralization syndrome?
The new virus is airborne, invisible, travels long distances, and cannot be easily filtered.
Aug 8, 2025
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Peco
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Dear Dostoevsky: Should we take advice from AI?
March is a grey month.
Mar 15, 2025
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Peco
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Writing AImish: Drawing a new line
When I clicked on the button, the mysterious icon appeared, floating beside my text.
Jan 30, 2025
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Peco
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The AI Curse is Coming for the Creator's Economy
Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.
Oct 21, 2024
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Ruth Gaskovski
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From Blackboards to Black Vestments: Where Do We Put Our Trust?
Experts' "blah blah" words, the inevitability narrative, and digital theophanies
Feb 1, 2024
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Peco
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Ruth Gaskovski
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Spirit, Mind & Heart
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A crisis of beauty, and a response
A monastery is rising amid the mountains of Wyoming.
Dec 29, 2025
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Peco
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Unexpected Journeys: On going, and not going, with the flow
My wife Ruth Gaskovski and I, along with Dixie Dillon Lane, recently completed the final 100 km of the Camino with a fantastic group of fellow pilgrims.
Jul 8, 2025
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Peco
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Words and the Heart: The Two Mirrors of Prayer
God's frequency, acedia, and machine culture
Mar 11, 2025
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Peco
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The Pantocrator Meets The Master and His Emissary
When I first read Iain McGilchrist’s book The Master and His Emissary, I didn’t just learn something profound about the neuropsychology of the human…
Feb 22, 2025
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Peco
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The Search for Stillness in a Mad, Mad World
Building mountains of silence amid the speed, clamor and distraction
Oct 10, 2024
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Disruptive Spirituality: A Fire that Purifies
We need saints in the caves, but we need many more inside the Machine
Oct 2, 2024
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Peco
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The Inklings are not dead
Tolkien and Lewis might be gone, but there are still refuges of lifegiving creativity in the world
Aug 29, 2024
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Peco
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Ruth Gaskovski
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The Event Horizon: Lessons from Anatomy and Hiking Shoes
In search of ideas we can live by
Jul 20, 2024
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Peco
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Trends and the Future
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When gossip rules the world, and snakes eat their own tales
The other day I talked to a man who believes the Earth is flat.
Feb 4
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Peco
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The day the internet dies
Michael O’Brien, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Visions of the Future
May 3, 2025
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Peco
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The Quantum Apocalypse: Are you ready for Q-Day?
In 1987, a little-known stage actor from the UK signed a contract to appear in a new sci-fi series called Star Trek, The Next Generation. The actor…
Mar 28, 2025
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Peco
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It turns out technology isn’t the future. Fertility is.
Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of…
Nov 25, 2024
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Unmachining the Mind
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Reading in the Digital Age
A conversation with Joel J Miller
Apr 24, 2025
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Peco
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Ruth Gaskovski
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Joel J Miller
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The Phantom and Mr. Jobs: Is there a way to stop brain drain?
Vampire cognition, cue shifts, and salted minds
Jan 6, 2025
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Peco
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Getting Out of the Fishbowl: The Unmachining Self-Assessment
Yes, yes, we know, so let’s get on with it
May 2, 2024
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Peco
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Build a Songbird Compass: Agency, Communion, and Tech
How not to be a ghost in the machine
Feb 21, 2024
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Peco
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Ruth Gaskovski
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The Hollow Boys, and Girls: Restoring Risk, Efficacy, and the Small Triumphs of Life
Intrinsic motivation, digital dissipation, and masters and commanders
Jan 10, 2024
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Peco
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Ruth Gaskovski
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Pandora’s Devices: Managing the Miseries of the Machine
Marriage is weird, Lincoln was wise, and six words that can transform a relationship
Nov 16, 2023
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Peco
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Ruth Gaskovski
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The Wedding Feast and the Threshing Floor
Uncanny robots, soufflé teenagers, and the search for “thick” human togetherness
Sep 4, 2023
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Peco
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From "Dark Flow" to Crossing Wendell’s Bridge
Disguised losses, the burden of self, and the next great division
Aug 2, 2023
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Peco
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Attention & Cognition
How Turtles Can Fly
Sometimes the path to originality goes through conventionality
Aug 27, 2025
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Peco
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From "Dark Flow" to Crossing Wendell’s Bridge
Disguised losses, the burden of self, and the next great division
Aug 2, 2023
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Peco
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Resisting an Attention Deficit Empire
Soft fascination, emotional chaos, and telling the right story about our attention
May 25, 2023
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Peco
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