What have we done ? - A Book About Our Lost Selves

A personal journey, a thesis, a mirror.

I’ve written some notes.

Which turned out into a small book!

Not in the traditional way.

Not entirely alone either.

It’s called What Have We Done, and it’s a deeply personal thesis on how humans have built a world that feels alien to their own hearts.

This book began as a slow ache.

As a child, I felt wonder. As a student, I felt dissonance.As a designer, I began to see how deeply our world had been shaped by abstraction, systems, and profit—often at the cost of our grace, beauty, and humanness.

I asked questions:Why did we stop listening to our hearts?Why did we trade presence for progress?How did thought—our greatest gift—become the seed of our suffering?

Through this book, I’ve tried to trace that journey.From the birth of language to the rise of systems, from modern life to the quiet spaces where healing still happens.

It’s written in the tone of reflection, somewhere between prose and essay, sometimes poetic, sometimes philosophical.

This book was written with the help of an AI language model.It helped me structure ideas, find rhythm, and clarify emotions.But it also raised the very questions the book itself is asking:Are we relying too much on the mind? On systems that feel human but are not?

In my acknowledgments, I wrote:

“There is irony here: in writing about the alienation caused by the overreach of the mind and our dependence on systems, I found myself leaning on one of the most advanced systems ever made... I do not offer this acknowledgment as celebration or critique, but as a fact of our present condition.”

The tool helped. The questions remain.And maybe that’s okay.

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