How
we live
now.
An open study on what has changed in our days, our work and our attention since these machines began thinking with us. Your answer is part of the investigation.
This is not a market survey.
It is a structured conversation
with a thousand people at once.
There is a difference between knowing that artificial intelligence is changing everything and understanding, concretely, what it is changing in people. Aggregate numbers, adoption, productivity, share prices, do not answer the question that matters.
That is the investigation. To gather, in European Portuguese, testimonies from professionals who use these tools every day, and to find patterns in the doubts, habits, frictions and small advances that no one announces. Around a thousand respondents over four months; 88 questions across 11 chapters; twenty minutes on average.
The result will be published in 2026 as an open essay, with anonymised data available for anyone who wishes to use it. Your answer enters that public archive without identifying you.
You sell nothing. You buy nothing. You simply think aloud, for twenty minutes, about something that matters.
11 short chapters.
Small groups of questions per screen.
- I. About you We start with the essentials. 8 direct · 3' p. 1
- II. The arrival of the machine Artificial intelligence enters our lives through two doors. 11 direct · 5' p. 4
- III. What we ask of it What we delegate to a machine says a lot. 16 direct · 7' p. 9
- . What you see around you Up to now we have spoken about you. 36 direct · 15' p. 16
- IV. Thinking with the machine When a capacity is externalised, an intimate adjustment tends to go unnoticed. 9 direct · 4' p. 31
- V. The pace of things Every new tool brings a promise of time. 8 direct · 3' p. 35
- VI. What is yours There is an old question this technology has revived: what is mine? When we share a text, an idea, a decision shaped in dialogue with a machine, some part of authorship stays open. 8 direct · 3' p. 38
- VII. The rest of life AI does not live only on the screen: it leaks into the time outside. 6 direct · 3' p. 41
- VIII. Trust, verify Whom do we trust? In what, and how far? As the text in circulation passes more and more through synthetic intermediaries, this question stops being theoretical. 4 direct · 2' p. 44
- IX. Where we are heading Looking ahead without blind enthusiasm or alarmism. 6 direct · 3' p. 46
- X. Small signals Four questions on micro-habits. 4 direct · 2' p. 49
Your time
is returned in three
distinct currencies.
- For everyone · upon submission
The full report, first-hand.
You receive the integral essay by email as soon as it is published, in the last quarter of 2026, before it reaches any newsroom or social network. One hundred and twenty pages in PDF, plus the anonymised dataset in open format.
- Halfway · chapter IV
Your reader profile, computed from your answers.
At the end of the fourth chapter, you receive on screen a private synthesis of how you answered compared with the rest of the group: where you are ahead, where you are behind, where you are alone. One of the most discussed artefacts of the study, redone for this edition.
- For those who finish · optional
Invitation to the reading session of the results, live.
Before the public release, I host an online one-hour session commenting the results first-hand and answering questions from those who took part. It is recorded and sent to those who cannot attend. No repeats, no promotion, no upsell.
Honesty is simpler
than compliance.
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We don't identify you.
We never ask for name, email, phone or login. The session is kept under a technical identifier that only serves you, to resume where you left off. There are no third-party analytics cookies and no cross-site tracking.
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The data is public.
At the end of the study, the anonymised set of answers will be published in open format so that others can reanalyse, refute, and build on top.
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You leave at any moment.
On every screen there is a button to delete your session and everything you wrote. No questions, no three-page confirmations, no exit surveys.
Twenty minutes thinking
about something that matters.
Read alone like a notebook. Answered alone like a letter to a patient friend.