Aun Collective Thoughts https://auncollective.com/thoughts/ Short field notes, comics, and interactives about AI, data, work, and the assumptions hiding underneath them. en-us Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0500 The marathon gets the city moving https://auncollective.com/thoughts/marathon-day/ https://auncollective.com/thoughts/marathon-day/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0500 Not just the runners. One marathon, two public networks, and a second course unfolding around the race. Not our data https://auncollective.com/thoughts/pick-a-dataset/ https://auncollective.com/thoughts/pick-a-dataset/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0500 Every new hire picked a dataset. The point was never the analysis. Imperialistic innovation https://auncollective.com/thoughts/imperialistic-innovation/ https://auncollective.com/thoughts/imperialistic-innovation/ Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0500 The model was broke. AI will accentuate the gap. What have you stopped doing? https://auncollective.com/thoughts/what-have-you-stopped-doing/ https://auncollective.com/thoughts/what-have-you-stopped-doing/ Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0500 The gain isn’t the tool. It’s the step that stops happening. Easier feels easier. https://auncollective.com/thoughts/easier-feels-easier/ https://auncollective.com/thoughts/easier-feels-easier/ Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0500 The depth didn’t get harder. There are just fewer people down there. Taught to fish. https://auncollective.com/thoughts/taught-to-fish/ https://auncollective.com/thoughts/taught-to-fish/ Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0500 The point is not fewer questions. It’s better ones. AI became a verb. https://auncollective.com/thoughts/ai-became-a-verb/ https://auncollective.com/thoughts/ai-became-a-verb/ Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0500 The letters reveal the work more clearly than the tool: AI assists, it acts, then people build what does the work. Everything has a clock speed. https://auncollective.com/thoughts/clock-speed/ https://auncollective.com/thoughts/clock-speed/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0500 The risk isn’t the connection. It’s connection without deliberate design. Does AI enjoy AI-ing? https://auncollective.com/thoughts/do-ai-enjoy-ai-ing/ https://auncollective.com/thoughts/do-ai-enjoy-ai-ing/ Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0500 A bird cannot tell us it enjoys flying. An AI can tell us it enjoys thinking. The first answer may be better evidence. Propose McDonald’s. https://auncollective.com/thoughts/propose-mcdonalds/ https://auncollective.com/thoughts/propose-mcdonalds/ Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:00:00 -0500 When a room is stuck arguing about shadows, the way out is often a crude first version, placed on the table. Look at your fish. https://auncollective.com/thoughts/look-at-your-fish/ https://auncollective.com/thoughts/look-at-your-fish/ Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:00:00 -0500 Before adding another tool, another hire, or another layer of complexity, look harder at what is already on the table.