Writing is still thinking
Something humbling happened last week: three hours of my life disappeared into a blank document with barely a paragraph to show for it.
Thinking and Learning
A collection of 4 posts
Playing Favorites - How AI Shapes Our Knowledge Without Us Noticing
AI is making us all smarter in exactly the same way, and that might be the problem. What happens when the most accessible knowledge becomes the most uniform? As AI increasingly curates what information we see, are we trading the...
Truth in a Post-Truth World, Revisiting Frankfurt's On Bullshit
Last week, philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt passed away. As a young adult, his essay “On Bullshit” completely changed how I thought about truth and lies, especially given a personal history with family who had a tenuous relationship with the truth....
Mental Models
Imagine you have never used an iPad before, but I tell you that you can play chess on it. Before you turn it on, you will already have started building a mental model of how the chess game will look,...