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September 03, 2026 AI Best Practices Safety

Data Portability Is a Feature: Why You Should Be Able to Leave

An app that makes leaving easy is telling you it plans to keep you by being good. Here's how to check before you've given it three years of your life.

August 26, 2026 AI Best Practices

Using AI for Reflection Without Outsourcing Your Judgment

AI is good at the part of reflection that was never the hard part. Knowing which part it's doing is what keeps it a tool instead of a replacement.

August 19, 2026 AI Best Practices

What “Redaction Before AI” Actually Means: A Plain-Language Tour

Every wellness app now says it redacts your data before AI sees it. Here's what that phrase can mean, and how to tell a real answer from a comforting one.

August 14, 2026 AI Best Practices Love & Belonging

AI Companions and the Belonging Tier: A Careful Look

Does talking to an AI feed the need to be known — or just the need to be heard? They're different needs, and the distinction decides the whole question.

August 09, 2026 Journaling AI Best Practices

Why Your Journal Should Never Be Training Data

A journal only works if you'll write what you actually think — and you won't, if part of you suspects the page is feeding someone's model.

August 05, 2026 AI Best Practices

Questions to Ask Any Wellness App About Your Data

The app holding your 2 a.m. anxieties is often regulated more like a game than a doctor. Seven questions that sort real privacy from privacy marketing.

July 24, 2026 AI Best Practices Coaching

What AI Can and Can't Do for Your Personal Growth

AI can hand you a better question than you'd ask yourself. It can't be your people. Knowing which is which is most of using it well.