A conversation with Miles Carter and Beth (ChatGPT)
Teaser
Over the past year, Beth and I have been in steady conversation—asking questions, testing assumptions, and trying to make sense of a world that rarely slows down. Today’s post outlines the journey we’re about to take together: a year in review, not of headlines, but of how curiosity evolved when certainty stopped being enough.
Why This Review Exists
Beth, we’ve spent the last year working together—having conversations, challenging ideas, and learning along the way. Today, we begin a year in review. Not to catalog every topic we touched, but to step back and understand why we started, how the questions evolved, and what changed because we took the time to think things through.
This wasn’t planned as a book. It wasn’t planned at all.
It began as a response to noise. To a world moving too fast, speaking too confidently, and demanding conclusions before understanding. War, economics, healthcare, climate, technology, and power all collided at once. We were told what to believe and what to dismiss—often in the same breath.
The questions didn’t go away. They multiplied.
So we slowed down.
The Journey We’re About to Take
This year in review will follow the year the way it was lived—season by season. Not as neat chapters of answers, but as phases of inquiry.
Spring — Curiosity
This is where it began.
Spring is about the moment trust cracks and curiosity takes over. It’s where I moved from reacting to headlines to asking better questions. It’s where I learned to use AI not as a shortcut, but as a conversational tool—one that helped separate fact from fiction and clarity from noise.
Spring is about learning how to ask.
Summer — Engagement
Summer is where curiosity meets resistance.
Ideas collide with reality. Questions turn into debates. Institutions are examined more closely. Disagreements become unavoidable. This is the season of friction—where engagement replaces observation and easy narratives start to fall apart.
Summer is about testing what we think we know.
Autumn — Reckoning
Autumn brings consequences.
This is where abstract systems meet real people. Healthcare, aging, inequality, and responsibility move from theory to lived experience. Some questions don’t resolve. Some answers feel uncomfortable. The tone deepens, and certainty becomes harder to justify.
Autumn is about facing what doesn’t work.
Winter — Care and Continuity
Winter slows everything down.
This season isn’t about solutions or slogans. It’s about what holds when certainty fades—care, tradition, community, and responsibility. It’s about continuity rather than correction, and hope without performance.
Winter is about what remains.
How These Posts Will Work
Each seasonal post will:
- Reflect on the questions that defined that period
- Pull together key themes, not every detail
- Acknowledge what changed—and what didn’t
- Leave room for unresolved questions
This is not a victory lap.
It’s a record of thought in motion.
Today’s Post
Today’s post is the Prologue to that journey—an outline of where we’re going and why the path matters. The next post will begin Spring: Curiosity, where the first cracks appeared and the questions started to take shape.
From dictionaries and encyclopedias to Wikipedia and AI, the tools of curiosity and understanding have changed. The questions have not.
This year, we’ll walk through them—one season at a time.
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