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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How to Protect Your Cognitive Abilities in the AI Age
The final post in my Exponential Age series: what you can actually control when it comes to protecting your cognitive abilities as AI accelerates around you.
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AI and Information Overload: Why Our Minds Can’t Keep Up
I’m 55, I got online in 1996, and my working memory still hasn’t upgraded since. A personal look at what three decades of internet, and now AI, have done to how I think.
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Economics of the Exponential Age: Who Wins, Who Loses
Wages are stagnating while productivity soars and a handful of tech giants dominate. Here is a look at who really wins (and loses) in the exponential age.
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Technology Outpacing Society: Who Gets Left Behind
From a single trillion-dollar fortune to outdated legislation, the gap between technology and society is real – and growing. Part 2 of my series on why technology is outpacing society.
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What Is the Exponential Age? Technology Explained
This is the first post in our new series exploring why technology is outpacing society. We start with the basics: what is exponential technology and what’s driving it?
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