The Computer & Technology Network

The oldest objection to writing was that it would make us forget. It was right. We made that trade so long ago we stopped noticing, which matters, because AI is offering us another one.

instein could not have written general relativity without reading Newton, 228 years after Newton wrote it down. Post 2 of the Writing as a Technology series, on the invention everything else runs on.

Speaking arrives on its own. Reading has to be taught, every time. Post 1 of the Writing as a Technology series asks why that difference matters, and why writing was invented by accountants.

I stopped doing long division the day I got a calculator. Technical debt has a cognitive twin, and generative AI makes it far easier to run up. What should we still do ourselves?

Three months on from my first vault analysis, I ran the numbers again. The backlog shrank for the first time, the Readwise pile grew, and Claude found gaps I had not noticed. Here is what changed.

Part three of my Claude + Obsidian series: trying the new Fable model for a vault review, letting Buffer draft my social posts, and finally taming my notes backlog with an intent property.