Koby Ofek ⁽²⁵⁾

I spend a lot of time thinking about the internet and its grip on our attention, our culture, and our daily family rituals. Then I look at what happens when kids open YouTube. A single, seemingly harmless video quickly devolves into a neon-colored slip-and-slide of…

I couldn't help but nod along as I was reading David Brooks’ recent piece about the decline of the novel. I'm from a generation that still remembers when new books by Philip Roth or Toni Morrison were cultural tremors, sending shockwaves of reviews and arguments…

A week ago, I never would have told you I had a problem with being offline. I wasn’t one of those people, the kind who gets messy, leaving their phone in another room and failing to hide their calm demeanor. My disconnection had never caused…

The following are beliefs and understandings about AI and the future of work. They guide me in my research and helped me write Keep Your Day Job. While I see every fact individually as a temporary belief that I hold, together they hold a certain…

I remember the distinct hum of a 2400 baud modem connecting, that screechy symphony heralding entry into the nascent digital world of Bulletin Board Systems. Back then, running Radio Ga Ga BBS from my parents' second phone line, the internet felt like a sprawling, untamed…