Fairy-tale tropes aren’t arbitrary.
They join an invisible principle to a house, a forest, a wolf.
The story makes the principle something you can see.
Self-Transformation
The deepest effect of a technology may not be what it helps us do, but what it quietly trains us to notice, value, remember, and ignore.
Postman’s challenge is therefore metacognitive: not just “What can this tool do?” but “What kind of thinker am I becoming by using it?”
Person is the ground.
Persona is the angle.
Personality is the pattern that emerges under pressure.
That’s where a character stops being described and starts becoming inevitable.
#Person#Persona#PersonalityMatters
While robots are crucial to keep an eye on, I’m increasingly interested in exoskeletons ... and I suspect they’ll be something to watch as they enter the market.
Imagine putting on an exoskeleton mesh glove and using AI to make “my hand” stronger. Or wearing mesh pants that let me run faster.
I think of this as a kind of “second skin”: technology worn on the body that can embody and enact my will in entirely new ways.
Same person. Three levels. Cottage, stalk, castle.
The persona changes with the height.
Personality is what he carries up.
Systems theory is why the boy in the clouds is still the boy on the ground.
Not a type. A person in a system.
#Person#Persona#Personality #PersonalityMatters
We build the trellis.
Then we grow around it.
That may be the simplest image of technology: we shape our tools, then they shape us.
What kind of human being grows on this trellis?
🤔 personality trait profiling, this is the part of AI I’m watching most closely:
The computer is moving from
tool → medium → interlocutor → personality → delegate → environment.
Personality is the pivot.
The question changes from:
“What can this machine do?”
to:
“Who am I dealing with?”
Once that feels natural, trust, delegation, attachment, authority, and dependence all change.
The message of AI personality is bigger than tone or style:
It socializes computation.
In thirty years of clinical work I’ve watched the same pattern at every threshold.
The capacity that needs to announce itself rarely carries the weight once the door is open.
The quieter one usually does.
#PersonalityMatters