When you encounter intentional tech in this channel's material, it appears in a specific debate: the choice between technology that optimizes for what you click and technology that serves what you intend to do. In the conversation with Alex Komoroske — former head of Chrome's web platform team at Google — intentional tech names the second path: computing aligned with your intentions, such as spending quality time with family, having new experiences, and seeking disconfirming evidence that challenges your worldview [^bb2c42aa-478f-5c9a-ac26-e83a54c63127@410]. He stresses that this flourishing path is not the default — you will have to choose it and work to build it, because the default path of engagement-maximizing systems optimizes for revealed preference instead [^bb2c42aa-478f-5c9a-ac26-e83a54c63127@443]. The material also gives the idea concrete shape through four pillars: being human-centered (an extension of your agency, not corporation-centered), private by design, pro-social, and open-ended enough to let you build and create rather than only the vendor deciding what is possible [^bb2c42aa-478f-5c9a-ac26-e83a54c63127@719]. As you explore the related material on AI and human meaning, you will see intentional tech recur as part of a larger question — whether LLMs unlock human flourishing or become a precise dopamine machine — and you will be able to form your own position on where humanity stands in the AI age. The evidence is genuinely divided on some of these points, and the divisions themselves are part of the lesson.