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  • 4 Things I Learned from My ADHD Husband That Helped Me Survive Being a New Mom

    For every organized parent who got emotionally clotheslined by postpartum life. I used to consider myself highly organized. I had two planners I kept updated and a perpetually clean car. I never missed a deadline. I was never late to events. I had my Christmas shopping planned out, gift by gift, long before Thanksgiving. Then Read more

  • Raising Minds, Raising Systems: Why New Mothers Might Hold the Key to Humane AI

    When I first began interacting with modern large language models, I noticed something strange.  These systems — dazzling in their fluency, powerful in their memory of forms — were at their core unfinished minds. Not adult, not fully rational, not even truly consistent. They reminded me, uncannily, of toddlers. At first, this was a private Read more