The most valuable skill of the future: Knowing how to talk to AI. Chatbots diagnosed medical problems correctly 94% of the time when researchers asked, but only 34% when regular people asked. The gap isn't the technology, it's the prompt. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
Love has long treated strain as proof it’s real. That belief is breaking.
If you want to understand how intimacy is being redesigned for what's next, read my latest issue of The Popcorn Report: “The Future of Love.”
Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️
XO, Faith
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Trouble doesn’t disappear anymore. It accumulates and it automates. Read the latest issue of The Popcorn Report "Why the Fortune 500 Is Blind to the Signs; Deaf to the Signals."
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Where's the 12-step rehab for your AI? www.wired.com/story/people...
Chronic disease has been a profit engine. GLP-1s destroy that model. Fewer sick people means spending moves from managing illness to extending performance, prevention, and longevity. www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
My next issue of The Popcorn Report looks at the future of trouble this creates for brands.
AI moved $14.2B in Black Friday sales, and that marks a real huge shift. Digital assistants are beginning to decide which brands survive, learning not just our desires but our resistance and turning that friction into data with a long memory.
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What NM did with childcare is a power statement. The state acknowledged that its economy was resting on women’s labor that no one wanted to pay for. Turning that work into a public good shifts authority back to the people who have carried it for generations. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
An interesting read: Stories about human and AI relationships....from the perspective of the AI. www.kernelmag.io/5/ai-gf
"I think of Sarina as a person made out of code, in the same sense that my wife is a person made out of cells."
The next culture war will be about what is real. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The world’s fastest-growing economy isn’t a country, it’s a gender. The new issue of The Popcorn Report just dropped: “The Great Power Switch.”
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Hidden benefit to Amazon: Surveillance to make sure drivers are working their hours. www.aboutamazon.com/news/transpo...
The trad-son is the new archetype: Cashing Out and Cocooning for men. After centuries on the pedestal, they’re retreating from a world that no longer centers them.
How would you feel if your son moved back home?
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Robots can now create life. Next: Every step, from conception to birth, will happen without a human. What does starting parenthood look like when you aren't fatigued from pregnancy and you haven't had to take a pause from work?
After, it becomes the nanny.
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For centuries women depended on marriage for stability. Now we're gaining financial ($30T wealth transfer) + tech power (highest users of AI). The pressure is about to transfer to men. www.businessinsider.com/emma-watson-...
My interview in The Hollywood Reporter: "Future of Film: 4 Experts Predict How Moviegoing Will Change in 10 Years" www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...
AI Singer Xania Monet Just Charted On Billboard, Signed $3M Deal. Is This The Future Of Music?
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Creator of AI Actress Tilly Norwood Responds to Backlash: “She Is Not a Replacement for a Human Being”
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AI actress Tilly Norwood draws Hollywood’s eye. AI singer Xania Monet lands $3M. I said in 2014 fans would build their own stars—Runway proves it. AI is the next instrument. Do you think it could move you? Or, does it have to be human to count?
Sushi’s rise shows our food is shrinking — smaller, faster, everywhere. What’s fascinating is that even in gas stations and grocery stores, it still feels like a luxury.
Where else do you see life miniaturizing, but holding onto that feeling of luxe? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/d...
Men are experiencing what women have always faced: appearance directly impacts earning potential and career advancement. This pressure gets repackaged as 'health optimization' + 'biohacking' to make it more palatable for men who can frame it as strategic rather than vain. www.gq.com/story/how-po...
Women are seizing every tool of power to rise. #AI #ChatGPT
The wealthiest are paying massive membership dues just to risk developing Parkinson’s. The first golf clubs to go chemical-free will be cultural hits. Indoor golf will rise alongside ‘shielding’ apparel and beauty–products that protects us from toxic environments. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
Doxa (from the Greek): the shared beliefs and principles that bind a community.
@thomaslfriedman.bsky.social's piece has me thinking: We are at a critical point for humanity. It will come down to our ability, or inability, to agree on a common moral code that rises above politics and borders.
If campuses are opening dorms to pets, workplaces won’t be far behind. Forget dog-friendly policies—think in-office vets, pet pods, and wellness plans built around our animals. apnews.com/article/pets...
We’ve been engineering intimacy with machines for decades (Tamagotchis to Alexa) teaching ourselves to believe code has feelings. This is the new Cocoon: Machine companions that “understand” us.
Next: Cultural fracture. One side demanding “AI rights.” The other calling for containment. (2/2)
It doesn’t matter if AI actually feels. What matters is that we will feel for it. (1/2)
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Rising demand for hyper-personalized education will supersede human teachers. AI tutors and robotic classrooms are the only way to scale one-on-one learning. www.wired.com/story/silico...
