We tend to think of speaking as something we do after we’ve figured out what we want to say — a final step in a tidy internal process. But it isn’t just a way to communicate our thoughts — it’s often how we form them.

In a year defined by AI developments, a strange tension is emerging. The smarter our machines get, the harder it is to see where humans fit in the future.

Most social networks are no longer social. They're content platforms, optimized for scale. That made sense when scale meant more people. But now it mostly means more bots.

Most social networks rely on the 1% of devoted creators to publish high-quality content that is then consumed by the rest of the network. We want to create a community of commenters.

Whether your definition of hate speech is broad or narrow, the voice gives a listener much more information about the person behind the ideas they may find harmful, and allows them to make better, more human choices about how to respond.

The tone, rhythm, and intonation of speech create a rich layer of emotional, social, and contextual cues that convey far more than the content of the words spoken.