About this Newsletter
We live in an age where algorithms know what we want before we do, where AI can write, create, and decide with superhuman efficiency. But somewhere between the optimized recommendations and perfectly generated content, something essential slips through—those messy, contradictory, inexplicable impulses that make us human.
DeepUrge explores the territory algorithms can’t reach: the irrational choices that define us, the contradictory desires we hold simultaneously, the physical hungers no chatbot can satisfy, the meaning we desperately seek beyond mere function.
This isn’t about resisting AI. It’s about using AI as a mirror—one that, by showing us what machines can do, reveals with startling clarity what they cannot. In that gap lies everything that matters: the wisdom of our irrationality, the intelligence of our bodies, the paradoxes we inhabit, the stories we need to tell, the connections that sustain us.
What You’ll Find Here
Explorations into the deep-seated human drives that defy optimization—why we love the wrong person, choose the inefficient path, destroy what we’ve built, or crave experiences that serve no logical purpose.
Conversations with people who’ve followed their gut over the algorithm, who’ve made choices that look foolish on paper but feel right in their bones.
Investigations of how our embodied existence—our need for touch, our nostalgia, our awareness of mortality—shapes desires AI can analyze but never share.
Provocations about meaning-making in an age of meaningless efficiency, about vulnerability in a world of performance, about what it costs to be fully human when being machine-like seems easier.
Experiments in reclaiming the un-optimized life—those moments of beautiful inefficiency, spontaneous connection, and unquantifiable aliveness.
This is for anyone who’s ever felt that something’s missing in our algorithmically curated world. Who senses that our deepest satisfactions come not from resolution but from tension, not from perfection but from our gorgeous flaws, not from having everything figured out but from sitting with profound uncertainty.
DeepUrge is a space to articulate what we’re in danger of forgetting: that our contradictions aren’t bugs to be fixed, that our inefficiencies aren’t problems to be solved, that our irrationality isn’t weakness to be overcome.
In a world increasingly designed by and for machines, this is an atlas to the unmappable territories of human experience—a reminder that the most important things about us are precisely those that resist optimization.
Welcome to the algorithm’s blind spot. Welcome to what makes you irreducibly you.
