SAM Frida

I was watching Couples Therapy, Season 3, Episode 10, when something stopped me cold. The therapist is Israeli. Her patient is Palestinian, from Ramallah. At some point during the session, the therapist mentions that she is Israeli. The patient responds: I know. Sit...

I thought we had the same definition of friendship. That is the thing about assumptions – they are invisible until they are not. Two people can use the same word, mean entirely different things, and walk alongside each other for years before the gap becomes visible....

Marjane Satrapi died today. Aged 56. Of sadness, according to those who loved her, a little over a year after the death of her husband, the love of her life. She survived the Islamic Revolution. She survived exile. She survived the war inside herself long enough to...

Something interesting happened to me recently in a conversation with an AI assistant. I was in the middle of processing something complex and emotionally charged, late at night, and the AI told me to go to bed. I did not want to go to bed. I wanted to keep going. When...

The layer missing from every AI ecosystem isn't a better model. It isn't a faster chip or a smarter benchmark. It's people who can stand in the space between the system and the human, and actually translate, not just technically, but psychologically, philosophically,...

Most people walk into an interview trying to prove they are worth hiring. They rehearse their answers, polish their LinkedIn profile, and hope the number at the end of the conversation is high enough. What they rarely do is sit across from that hiring manager and ask...

You know. You know you are not being honest with someone right now. Maybe it is a relationship that has run its course. Maybe it is a friendship you have outgrown. Maybe it is a dynamic at work, a deal you know is not going to close, a promise you made that you have...

There’s a moment usually after something breaks when you stop confusing niceness with kindness. Most people never get there. They spend their whole lives thinking they’re the same thing. They’re not. Niceness is a performance so old you’ve forgotten you’re performing...