Everything in Amsterdam moves in cycles—bikes, water, stories… and second chances. Amsterdam might rhyme with hamsterdom, but it has nothing to do with fuzzy pets—unless you count the millions of wheels spinning in a constant cycle of existence. I was in Amsterdam last week and seeing people on two wheels everywhere was not […]
Artificial intelligence can already write, analyze, predict, and decide faster than we can. It is entering our relationships, our workplaces, our health systems and even our moral decisions. But the uncomfortable question is not how powerful AI will become.
The question is: Are we psychologically mature enough to handle it?
“How do we know, Mama,
what to do, how to feel?”
asked the little one,
her eyes wide, her heart fluttering
with the fear of missing something.
Sometimes our desire to be seen, to be appreciated, or to share something meaningful can cloud our logical thinking. We may drift away from our center when making decisions.
Fraudsters know this.
They don’t only target romance scams or promises of easy money. They also target authors—people who care deeply about their work and want their voices to be heard.
Publishing, it turns out, has its own ecosystem of scams.
The Shared Pulse explores what happens when efficiency replaces attention, when speed outruns reflection, and when staying becomes harder than moving on. It asks what it means to remain human inside highly optimized lives—where everything functions, yet something feels quietly off. The novel does not offer solutions. It offers presence. It does not teach. It listens.
I planned this trip carefully. The book launch, the meetings, the timing of printed copies arriving from different platforms. I built buffers. I double-checked details. I did what I know how to do: optimize. And then two things happened that were completely out of my control.