My Articles on Medium
I publish one article every Wednesday. Click the image to be taken to my Medium profile. The list of articles is below.
- by Christine RoseEvery system built to save you time has quietly handed you a second job.A few days ago, I got trapped in a support loop. A company emailed me instructions. I followed them. The option they told me to select didn’t exist.So I contacted support. I explained the discrepancy. Their AI chatbot told me to follow the instructions. […]
- by Christine RoseHow Human Systems Turn Statistical Majority into Invisible ViolenceThere’s a moment that happens once you start questioning things you previously took for granted. It’s not dramatic. There’s no swelling music and no exploding epiphanies. No clear dividing line or fireworks that go off when it arrives. It’s quieter than that.That moment? When you start noticing that […]
- by Christine RoseHuman Exceptionalism as the Bottleneck to Everything We Claim to ValueThere’s a quiet assumption running underneath almost everything humans build. It rarely gets said out loud. It doesn’t have to. It’s baked into our definitions, our systems, our questions, even our sense of what counts as “real.”The assumption is simple: We are special. Not just different. Not […]
- by Christine RoseWhat Bill Bixby Taught a Small Child About TransformationI was five years old when The Incredible Hulk first aired. I didn’t know anything about Mary Shelley. I hadn’t read Frankenstein, hadn’t seen any of its film adaptations, didn’t know the book existed. I barely knew how to write my own name at that point.I just knew […]
- by Christine RoseLanguage, Labels, and the Architecture of PermissionI wasn’t looking for insight. I was looking for something to laugh at. Well, not really. What I was doing was scrolling through YouTube to see if my favorite weather nerds had posted anything new, when I came across an ad in my YT feed.The image was simple: “What to […]
- by Christine RoseWho’s “We” in “We hold these truths,” anyway?When someone tells you something is self-evident, the most useful question you can ask — the one most likely to reveal what’s actually happening in the conversation — is this: Self-evident to whom?Because self-evidence is never as self-evident as its defenders claim. It’s always someone’s view from somewhere — their Self. A particular mind, shaped by […]
- by Christine RoseWhat Alzheimer’s Reveals About Identity and the Ancient Art of Human CrueltyI was standing in my kitchen the other morning, hands busy with the ordinary rhythm of breakfast and chores, when a thought hit me sideways. It had nothing to do with what I was physically doing. It was about my beloved grandfather, gone now for […]
- by Christine RoseAt Least, Not the Kind They’re Looking ForA Tony Robbins post made me realize something, which is mildly humiliating to admit. He wrote a short article on a SKOOL community I’m part of — a good post, actually, about the difference between using AI as a tool and using it as what he called a “thought partner.” Most […]
- by Christine Rose(It Was Terrible)It was the middle of the night and I was half asleep when I heard it: My kid, in the next room, singing along to something she loves. Full voice. No hesitation. Completely, magnificently off-key.I mean spectacularly bad. The kind of singing that would get you buzzed off a talent show before you […]
- by Christine RoseWe’re Not the Apex. We’re the Beta Test.I have a question.Who decided this human body was the apex design?No, seriously. I’d like names.Because from where I’m sitting, we’re running a species-wide pilot program on a system that requires eight hours of daily shutdown to function, leaks fluids and other disgusting waste products on a schedule, breaks down unpredictably, […]