TNP is on Mobile + Questions for Meaning in the AI age
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Reflection matters, but it is hard to prioritize in the middle of ordinary life. The actions that contribute positively to our lives fail not because they are too hard to return to consistently.
This is why we are excited to announce The Net Project on iOS and Android.
The mobile experience makes it easier to return to reflection in the middle of real life: not only when you are sitting at a desk, but between classes, during a commute, at night, or in those quieter moments when something is on your mind and you want a place to meet it honestly. Mobile lets reflection fit more naturally into the rhythms people already have, instead of asking them to step outside of their daily lives to do it.
We built them this way because the kinds of reflection that help people live with more meaning, purpose, and well-being often break down at the level of everyday life. Reflection can feel important in theory, but hard to return to in practice. It can start to feel like something you need the perfect mood for, or a block of free time, or a level of energy many people simply do not have at the end of the day.
That gap matters. Especially now.
We live in a time full of noise, speed, distraction, and constant pressure to react. It is easy to drift further away from the parts of ourselves that know what matters, what feels true, and what kind of life we actually want to build. Healthy, productive reflection is sometimes dismissed as indulgent, slow, or impractical. We see it differently. We think reflection is part of how people reconnect with their better impulses, build alignment over time, and live with greater intention. The problem is not that reflection matters too little. It is that too often it feels too hard to do consistently.
Right now, that means a few practical things.
You can reflect on daily cards we have carefully crafted, designed to help you build greater consistency and alignment through repetition over time. You can use private, unprompted journaling when you do not want a prompt and simply need to get your thoughts out. And you can begin engaging with social features like creating memories with others, something we hope to say more about in future posts.
We hope that topics like meaning and purpose or fulfillment and flourishing will become easier to think about and share with others. There is a wealth of information on these topics informed by decades of research, and we’re translating that into everyday language while making our own contributions to the field.
That fits the larger vision behind what we are building.
We want to improve meaning and flourishing for you, for all our users, and eventually for the world we share together. We believe people who are more grounded in meaning and flourishing are more likely to build healthier relationships, healthier communities, and a healthier society.
Headwinds and Tailwinds: Meaning-making and Flourishing with AI
Artificial intelligence is affecting different corners of our life. Whether you’re an avid user or not, we are seeing generative AI beginning to affect how people relate to work, relationships, identity, purpose, and meaning. Future automation areas will continue changing how human behavioral norms evolve. These carry significant implications for what the future of human meaning-making, purpose, and flourishing will look like.
There are a number of important questions to explore and monitor here, including:
How will these technologies shape our role as an organization and our goals?
What do these changes mean for humanity?
What role can we play as an organization and as individuals to improve the likelihood that humans, and the earth more broadly, can flourish?
What becomes more precious, more fragile, or more confusing in that world?
These are questions we’re exploring from a variety of angles including future-of-work, labor and workforce transformations, social and emotional self-regulation, agency and autonomy.
This is an area we are taking seriously, both for what it means for our own work and for how we may contribute as a thought partner to others thinking carefully about human flourishing in a changing world. We hope to contribute usefully to these conversations, both for readers trying to make sense of these shifts in their own lives and thought partners for organizations in the space.