AI in 2026: The Year It Stopped Feeling Optional

Infographic summarizing the state of AI in 2026

In 2026, the most useful way to think about AI is not as a category of products, nor even as a wave of clever models, but as infrastructure. That sounds less exciting than chatbots writing sonnets, but it is a much more important shift. Infrastructure is what quietly changes the default shape of work. Electricity did…

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My first post to last (2025-9-27)

Colorful buildings above a harbor in Parga, Greece

I had not meant to get off the bus there. The plan was simple enough: stay in my seat, watch the coast unspool to the next larger town, find a pension with decent shutters and a late kitchen, and continue being the sort of traveler who confuses movement with progress. But somewhere after the third hairpin…

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