My Personal Reflections
My audio diary is my attempt to share a bit about my own experience through the lens of the themes and meta themes of the following essay. If you prefer to understand the material via stories, I invite you to listen. I also invite you to read the essay itself, too.
Every day, our choices ripple outward, shaping the lives of people we may never meet. Technology is woven through nearly all of them: guiding attention, amplifying consequences, shaping what we see, how we decide, and how others respond. It can connect, or it can distract. It can clarify, or it can obscure. But human judgment remains central.
Signal & Connection is the evolution of Authentic Interactions. It keeps the curiosity, rigor, and the guiding principles you’ve followed: agency, autonomy, adaptability, antifragility, while widening the lens to focus on care in everyday life. Care sits at the tension between human connection and digital influence. It shows up when we notice, when we act thoughtfully, and when we weigh consequences that are human and immediate.
We see care in moments that are small but consequential:
A manager giving feedback in a way that preserves trust, despite digital pressures.
A parent guiding a teen’s engagement with social media.
A colleague deciding when to speak or when to hold back in online and offline contexts.
A community leader designing spaces that protect and empower, even under technological constraints.
Technology magnifies these moments, making subtle pressures visible and choices more consequential. Signal & Connection traces these patterns, surfaces lessons, and asks hard questions: how do humans act responsibly, thoughtfully, and humanely when every decision is amplified by technology?
We’re introducing audio diaries: raw, human stories that bring lived experience into conversation with essays. Some diaries will be only for paid subscribers, while a lottery determines which are going to be public. Paid subscribers will have access to additional stories, deeper reflections, and, over time, interactive opportunities to engage with the material.
Your support keeps this work alive. Paid subscribers gain access to these extra diaries and insights as the project evolves. If you want to explore how care, attention, and judgment intersect in a world shaped by technology, subscribing is the way to go.
The mission is simple but urgent: notice, act, and bring care into the spaces both physically and digitally we touch every day. Signal & Connection traces where care, attention, and judgment meet and the stakes are human.