Claude now features at most stages of my writing. Using David Kadavy’s four stages of creativity, I ask whether it’s making me more creative or less, and why my red lines matter.
Is Claude Helping or Hurting My Creative Process? Read More »
The third quarterly vault review of the year. Claude fixed last quarter’s mistakes, labelled who should act on each recommendation, and pointed at my real problem: time to synthesise.
A half-remembered Star Trek plot led to a conversation with Claude about two futures for our minds. Claude suggested a third, and history says it’s how things usually go.
A Fork in the Road: Will AI Make Us Smarter, or Leave Some of Us Behind? Read More »
How Claude helps me lay out blog posts (and talked me into writing series), why my synthesis queue now gets a Saturday review, and what I make of the redesigned Obsidian Copilot.
I’d used the term meta-skill in two recent posts without defining it. So I went back to my vault to work out what one is, with reading, writing and metacognition as examples.
A phrase I didn’t understand started it. Around 50 conversations later, here’s what using Claude as a reading partner gives me, what it costs, and how I keep the thinking my own.
Seek knowledge, discover, invent, build tools, explore again. That loop has always had a human in the middle. AI is now working in three of its five stages.
What impact would Artificial Intelligence have on the Knowledge Innovation loop? Read More »
I first used the Web in 1996 on a college computer. Thirty years later, a personal look at what the Internet gave me, what it cost me, and the one finding I can’t argue with.
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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.
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