Our personal experience is a tiny island. The ocean around it is everything we've had to take on faith from someone else.

We obsess over algorithms, LLMs, and agentics, but ignore a deeper truth: no technology is exempt from the laws of the system in which it is created.

What history can teach us about thinking in the age of AI. Before contact, the Choctaw, like many Native nations, ran a full economy within walking distance. Food, clothing, shelter, tools: made, repaired, and taught in place. Trade arrived with dazzling accelerants: steel that outcut stone, textiles that saved months at the loom, firearms that replaced years of archery practice, and those accelerants did exactly what accelerants do. They sped things up. They also altered the