I’m fascinated by self-assessment: how we view ourselves versus how we actually are. As an example, when I ran the first session of my Foundations course, we started with fitness. I was impressed by how many people claimed to already have a solid exercise habit. Now, that could be due to sampling bias given the […]

Nine strategies I use to read a book per week. No speed-reading required.

Recently, I shared my predictions about how AI will change the process of learning. In short, I expect that AI will reduce the need for many skills, potentially dumbing down the typical user. Just as the invention of writing made us worse at remembering things and the invention of the calculator made us worse at […]

I’ve been thinking a lot about how AI is going to affect the future of learning. If you’re just arriving, I’ve previously written about which sorts of skills will matter in an AI future and vibe coding as a possible model of what’s to come for skilled work. One of my tentative conclusions is that […]