Archive - The Alive Letter

Immediate Feedback

The gap between action and consequence

Dec 11 • James Meaden

Back to the Ground

The kind of world humans were built for

Dec 4 • James Meaden

November 2025

When Thinking Itself Became Externalized

The AI Revolution and the Fourth Rung of Abstraction

Nov 27 • James Meaden

When Reality Moved Behind Screens

The Digital Revolution and the third rung of abstraction

Nov 20 • James Meaden

When Work Became Mechanical

The Industrial Revolution and the second rung of abstraction

Nov 12 • James Meaden

When We Learned to Live in the Future

The agricultural revolution and the first rung of abstraction

Nov 5 • James Meaden

October 2025

The Invisible Mechanism

How every technology asks us to live more and more in our heads

Oct 31 • James Meaden

The one thing ..

.. they never taught you about being human

Oct 21 • James Meaden

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