Avatar Effect

AI has models. We build meaning.

The Avatar Effect builds the human layer for artificial intelligence — cognitive infrastructure that helps people learn, create, simulate, and communicate with intelligent systems they can understand and trust.

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Human-readable intelligence, built for the long term.

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Episodes

Latest Episodes

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The shape of an avatar

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[What we mean when we talk about identity online, and why the metaphor of an avatar still has work to do.]

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Writing

Latest Writing

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Writing in public, again

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[A decade after the personal blog quietly died, something interesting is happening to the people who never stopped publishing.]

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