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A fortnightly newsletter on the words we are building machines for. Six issues to start. Each one is short. Each one ends with a question, and the replies become the next issue.
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Two formats, alternating every other week. Curiosity issues open with a single question and an invitation to reply. Synthesis issues publish the patterns from the replies — quotes (anonymized unless permission given), the verb that emerged, the next question.
By issue three you are reading what you and other readers wrote in issues one and two. No essays handed down from a pulpit. A conversation that compounds.
The first six issues
A question I cannot shake
Define intelligence without a synonym. The opening provocation that started the whole platform.
Here's what 200 of you said
A synthesis of the replies. The patterns that came back. The disagreements no one expected.
The word started as a verb
The etymology reveal. Intelligere, what happened in late antiquity, and what changed under the word.
What this means for your AI strategy
Applied to one boardroom dilemma. The reader leaves with a sharper question to ask on Monday.
Cognitive labor: a word I'd like to try
A constructive proposal. Not a critique of the old vocabulary — a vocabulary that does the work we needed.
Where this goes from here
Close the arc. The podcast, the salons, the cartography expansion. An invitation in.
A note on cadence
Every other Tuesday. Fewer issues than most newsletters, longer arcs than most newsletters, never the news cycle. The platform's voice is curiosity. Provocation in real time burns the asset.
What you'll never get
No "5 takeaways from this week in AI." No infographics. No promotional emails between issues. No selling your address to anyone, ever. The newsletter is the product, and the reply is the conversation.