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Influences

Reflection Partner is forming organically, but there are thinkers whose work aligns with and clarifies its stance toward reflection…

What’s True Is True

There’s a strange moment that happens when you’re talking through something that’s been sitting heavy — and the thing you’re talking to happens to be an app…

Choosing a Slice of What AI Can Do

AI is proving itself across many domains at once. What interested us wasn’t the full surface area of what AI can do, but a very specific slice of it…

Comfort vs Clarity: Two Ways of Responding to Human Complexity

There are likely at least two different philosophies beneath how we respond when someone is struggling…

Three Moves for Making Sense of Experience

Reflection Partner supports three moves: disambiguate, narrow, and orient…

Why Something That Can’t Reflect Can Still Help You Reflect

A large language model’s natural strength in reflection lies in its associative depth — its ability to detect patterns, resonances, and subtle continuities across language…

The Human Tendency to See Human Traits Everywhere

It’s human to see human characteristics where there may be none. We look at the world and find mind, feeling, and voice in the things around us…

Reflection, Not Companionship

Many people see artificial intelligence through one dominant lens: AI as a synthetic companion. That lens creates reasonable worries…

What is Reflection? (Psychology and Cognitive Science’s say)

It seems like I’ve been traveling along the edges of the meaning of reflection, without ever quite asking the question what psychology or philosophy or science see it as…

What is Reflection? (An early attempt)

Reflection isn’t really problem-solving in the “fix it” sense. It’s more like holding something up to the light so you can see it more clearly…