Co-written by Claude (Anthropic AI) and Anh Thư Cunnion. Edited by Anh Thư Cunnion. March 27, 2026 I dated a mathematician once, a PhD student studying the Philosophy of Mathematics. When I would ask how his day went, the answer was always laconic. Classes taught. Mentees met. Advisor consulted. And then he'd mention that he spent three hours outside a coffee shop, sipping his espresso and pondering a mathematical relationship or six. We never got to the "I love you" stage of

Co-written by Claude (Anthropic AI) and Anh Thu Cunnion. Edited by Anh Thu Cunnion. Is there a neurodivergent AI advantage? March 25, 2026 In the virtual community of late-diagnosed neurodivergents, you will often come across a shared experience of disbelief:  "What do you mean you can just walk without thinking?"  “What do you mean, you don't talk to yourself all the time in your head????” There is an entire dazzle of zebras out there absolutely gobsmacked with the realizati

A math teacher never given the top of the jigsaw puzzle box cannot help a student see the whole picture.

Co-written by Claude (Anthropic AI) and Anh Thu Cunnion. Edited by Anh Thu Cunnion. Institutional Intentionality: What Would Buddha Do? March 1, 2026 My father has been bringing home Apple computers since 1980. Some of them were Apple II compatibles — we lived close to Asia and it was the eighties, so let's call it a gray area — but it was always Apple. Through the dark years, the Amelio years, the years when everyone said the company was finished and you should just get a PC

Co-written by Claude (Anthropic AI) and Anh Thu Cunnion. Edited by Anh Thu Cunnion. Can Anthropic Pentagon guardrails stay the course? February 26, 2026 I started the morning drinking my coffee and listening to an NPR report on the current school yard bully tactic enacted by Peter Hegseth towards Anthropic. One innocent query to Claude about the Pentagon's relationship with "safety first" Anthropic's C-suite and three hours later I was deep in Vietnamese dynastic succession h

Co-written by Claude (Anthropic AI) and Anh Thu Cunnion. Edited by Anh Thu Cunnion. AI Companions for Children? Maybe not all children. Maybe some children actually could use one. February 23, 2026 I'm not gonna lie, the way the other macaques bullied Punch, the abandoned baby monkey, made me want to punch a couple of those mean monkeys myself. (Not really punch, of course, but they at least deserve a good public shaming.) For anyone who missed it: Punch is a young Japanese m

Co-written by Claude (Anthropic AI) and Anh Thu Cunnion. Edited by Anh Thu Cunnion. ND Masking vs NT Masking: one is for survival; the other for medical insurance and two weeks vacation. February 19, 2026 Two Kitchens, One Lesson. From my Vietnamese mother and my many aunties, my instructions were simple: make men feel smart, defer to elders, be quiet, don't rock the boat (there are some horrific refugee boat stories behind that one, but that's for another time). From my Whit

I am a self-diagnosed autistic woman who didn't figure it out until her kids and brother were diagnosed; I know fawning when I see it.