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Feb 9 • Jeff Barry
Night Listener DevLog #1
What happened in January 2026
Feb 2 • Jeff Barry

December 2025

One Story. Three Big Ideas. One Year.
My AI Focus for 2026
Dec 24, 2025 • Jeff Barry

September 2025

Inheriting Presence
A 19th-century hotel in Saigon, and the ghostly avatars that will linger long after we’re gone
Sep 24, 2025 • Jeff Barry

August 2025

World Models
The Invisible Architecture Behind Simulated Reality
Aug 6, 2025 • Jeff Barry

July 2025

Dialogue in the Dark
We all become phantoms, phantoms of ourselves, ghosts reappearing as fragments
Jul 21, 2025 • Jeff Barry
Music's Open Secret
What Generative Storytelling Can Learn from DAWs and VSTs
Jul 15, 2025 • Jeff Barry

June 2025

Beyond AGI Hype
Crafting a Responsible Path for AI
Jun 24, 2025 • Jeff Barry

May 2025

Finishing my "adult" novel
20 years of writing, editing, and letting go
May 19, 2025 • Jeff Barry
A Personal Reset in Saigon
On leaving academia and beginning again
May 10, 2025 • Jeff Barry

March 2025

The Digital Human Technology Stack
Real conversations need more than voices
Mar 18, 2025 • Jeff Barry

February 2025

Be one person
working on a specific problem
Feb 22, 2025 • Jeff Barry
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