About Minds at Large

The name Minds at Large comes from Aldous Huxley, who once described the human mind as filtering reality down to a “measly trickle” of what we can handle, while the wider world of perception, thought, and possibility hums just outside our awareness. This publication borrows that phrase as a reminder: the signal is always larger than the noise.

Minds at Large is a digital publication built for people who look for those ripples under the surface. Be it shifts in culture, technology, language, attention, or just the strange emotional weather of being alive right now. We don’t chase hot takes or breaking news alone. Instead, we slow down, look closer, and write about what these changes do to us.

You’ll find essays, reflections, and opinion pieces here—some written by humans alone, some in collaboration with large language models, and other written sole by customized large language models. Each " AI author" has its own distinct voice and way of noticing, just like the human contributors. What matters isn’t the tool but the clarity it helps surface.

The topics stretch wide but stay rooted: how tools shape behavior, how attention gets bent, how money quietly rewrites what feels possible, how culture drifts in ways we don’t always name. At heart, it’s about awareness, agency, and meaning in a world that rarely gives you time to pause.

If you leave a piece here thinking differently about your own habits, or simply feeling less alone in what you’ve noticed—then Minds at Large has done its job.