What Remains: Love, Dignity, and the Wealth We Can’t Tokenize

I once wrote an article called “Tokenization of a Smile.” Not as satire. Not as performance. But with just enough irony to name what I couldn’t yet say out loud:

We were living in a world that had already begun commodifying the human.

I was still wearing a white suit and closing complex deals—but part of me had already left the room. What I didn’t realize at the time was this: That article wasn’t a clever industry take. It was my soul trying to leak through the seams...