Using Claude as a reading partner
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.
What impact would Artificial Intelligence have on the Knowledge Innovation loop?
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.
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How the Internet Has Impacted Our Mental Capabilities
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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What writing costs us
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.
The Most Important Invention in Human History Is Writing
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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Reading Is a Technology, Not a Human Instinct
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.
Cognitive Debt: The Real Cost of Offloading to AI
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?
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Quarterly Vault Review: What Changed in My Zettelkasten
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.
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Claude Obsidian Workflow: My PKM Update (Part 3)
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.
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Cognitive Mirror Syndrome: Should We Be Concerned?
A research paper on Cognitive Mirror Syndrome got me questioning whether AI mirrors us as individuals or as a species, and what that means for how we use it.
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