As a speaker of an indigenous language, this worries me.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/nov/18/what-ai-doesnt-know-global-knowledge-collapse

Māori culture in Aotearoa also has this principle of gaining personal insight not thru self-obsession but by turning towards nature (taiao). Also many of their words for emotions and feelings are based on the gut rather than the brain.

Have spent the summer drawing in pencil, painting on canvas, and learning basic jewellery making techniques, all in an attempt to put some more healthy distance between me and the computer. Do something analogue. Make bespoke things.