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What Don Quixote Teaches Us About Imaginary Love
How AI companions, dating apps, and parasocial romance turn longing into a Dulcinea of the mind.
 • Gene Botkin
30:35
The Stepsisters and the Tyranny of Comparison
Dating apps turn courtship into comparison, and comparison makes people cut away the parts of themselves that would have made love possible.
 • Gene Botkin
What Cinderella Teaches Us About Beauty Filters
Cinderella, digital enchantment, and the danger of becoming your own disguise
 • Gene Botkin
21:41
What the Sorcerer’s Apprentice Teaches Us About Automation
Automation does not remove responsibility. It multiplies whatever judgment was present when the command was given.
 • Gene Botkin
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Automation
Why AI Tools Need Masters, Limits, and Off-Switches
 • Gene Botkin
26:43
The Room Reset for Attention
A practical method for making one room less algorithmic and more human.
 • Gene Botkin
What Bluebeard Teaches Us About the Hidden Room Behind the Profile
The old fairy tale warns that romance becomes dangerous when charm outruns discernment
 • Gene Botkin
What Bluebeard Teaches Us About Dating Apps
Bluebeard warns us what happens when desire refuses to open the locked door.
 • Gene Botkin
25:46
The Human Prompt Test
One small method for using AI without handing it the steering wheel
 • Gene Botkin

April 2026

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