Claude Spotify Integration: My Experience
I spent a Friday evening setting up Claude’s Spotify connector and put it through its paces — playlists, dashboards, and an honest verdict.
Artificial Intelligence
Context Engineering vs Prompt Engineering Explained
You’ve spent time crafting better prompts. But what if the prompt is only half the story? This post explores why context engineering is the bigger lever.
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How I use Claude with Obsidian: My PKM Workflow (Pt2)
Since December I’ve been exploring three versions of Claude alongside my Obsidian vault. Here’s what I’ve learned about fitting AI into a PKM workflow without losing your own voice.
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Can Your PKM Protect Your Cognitive Abilities from AI?
Five years of Zettelkasten has convinced me that a PKM system can do more than store knowledge. It actively protects your ability to think independently in an AI-saturated world.
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Thriving Alongside AI: Strategies for Protecting Your Mind
The first three posts on AI and cognition explored the risks. This one is different — it’s about how to protect and even grow your mind while making full use of AI.
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Knowledge Collapse: The Hidden Risk to Society
If AI keeps generating content from AI content, could we lose the specialist knowledge that makes human expertise valuable? That’s knowledge collapse — and it matters.
We’ve Been Here Before – A History of Cognitive Concern
Since the invention of writing, technology has sparked cognitive concern. This post traces that history and asks what generative AI might mean for our minds.
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The AI Cognitive Ability Paradox
To make the best use of AI, we need strong cognitive abilities — the very abilities AI can undermine. This is the central tension of the AI age.
Key Takeaways of Stuart Armstrong, Smarter Than Us
Stuart Armstrong’s *Smarter Than Us* warned about AI risk back in 2014. I read it in 2025 and was struck by how much of what he predicted is now happening — from AI agents to the moral philosophy problem. Here are my key takeaways, merged with my own experiences of using AI in 2026.
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Beyond the Individual: Technology and the Fabric of Our Shared Beliefs
Much of our reality exists because we collectively agree it does. Technology has always shaped these shared beliefs. Now generative AI is creating content, not just transmitting it. What will this mean for our collective future?
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