Sometimes the problem is not that we have run out of ideas. Sometimes the creative process has simply become too familiar. Curio reminded me what happens when something unexpected enters the room and makes me curious again.
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I created Curio for a new YouTube channel. I did not expect this tiny animated character with orange glasses to make me excited about creating videos again.
Looking through old websites, I expected to find the past. Instead, I found familiar questions, recurring interests, and connections I had never noticed before. Sometimes looking back isn’t about nostalgia. It’s about finally seeing the threads that have been there all along.
I thought I was looking back at old websites. Instead, I found myself wondering why certain questions, interests, and ideas keep appearing throughout my life. I’m not sure what I’m seeing yet, but I can’t stop thinking about it.
AI is arriving everywhere at once. In our phones, our software, our browsers, our creative tools, and our daily routines. But lately I’ve been wondering if what many people are feeling is not fear or resistance, but something quieter: exhaustion from living inside constant technological acceleration.
Lately I’ve been wondering if people are starting to feel something different about AI. Not fear exactly. Not rejection either. More like exhaustion. When every app, platform, and device wants to become intelligent at the same time, curiosity can slowly start turning into noise.