Personal reflections on family, faith, school, work, service, and the daily practice of showing up.
October 9, 2026 · Nick Cerbone
Machine personhood is not our question to settle. It is the one we hand down, sharpened or dull.
On machine personhood, self-awareness, and the argument the next generation will have to finish.
Read the postSeptember 22, 2026 · Nick Cerbone
When intelligence gets cheap, value migrates to land, time, attention, trust, and care.
On work, vocation, and what an economy is for when goods get cheap.
Read the postSeptember 1, 2026 · Nick Cerbone
A 50-year-old does the math on partial reprogramming, second lifetimes, and readiness.
On life extension, partial reprogramming, and what a man does with a second lifetime.
Read the postAugust 14, 2026 · Nick Cerbone
Renting intelligence by the month, or owning it in the house: subsidiarity at household scale.
On local tools, open models, and keeping intelligence close to home.
Read the postJuly 28, 2026 · Nick Cerbone
A machine a thousand times better than the best surgeon will still fail one day. Who answers for it?
On robot surgeons, responsibility, and the line we should draw before we have to.
Read the postJuly 10, 2026 · Nick Cerbone
Schools were built to ration scarce information. The scarcity ended. The formation remains.
On school, formation, and what a teacher is actually for.
Read the postJune 23, 2026 · Nick Cerbone
Property is for rival goods. Knowledge is not one, and AI is finishing the argument.
On patents, copyrights, and the strange career of the idea that ideas are property.
Read the postJune 6, 2026 · Nick Cerbone
Knowledge workers are meeting the artisans' moment, and abundance has two sides.
On knowledge work, abundance, and what the Industrial Revolution actually taught us.
Read the postMay 26, 2026 · Nick Cerbone
A Catholic Response to Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas
On AI governance, subsidiarity, and the temptation of digital empire.
Read the postMay 17, 2026 · Nick Cerbone
A reflection for Ascension Sunday, May 17, 2026.
Read the postMay 12, 2026 · Nick Cerbone
A reflection for their feast day, May 12.
Read the postMay 12, 2026 · Nick Cerbone
Instructure calls it an "incident." The students are calling it finals week.
Read the postMay 11, 2026 · Nick Cerbone
This is the first post on this site, and I want to start with the problem I keep coming back to: public information that is legally available and practically unreachable.
Read the postAbout this diary
This diary is a place for the personal side of the work: the family lessons, classroom notes, faith questions, practical reflections, and ordinary moments that do not belong in a résumé or an institutional update.
Some entries may be polished essays. Others may be short field notes. The point is not performance. The point is recordkeeping, reflection, and telling the truth carefully.