Essays

September 2026 Human in the Lead AI-powered tools can now clear your backlog. What are the implications, and how do we manage the higher-order effects? Read July 2026 Effort and Atrophy The cost of moving from a search engine to an answer bot, and what it does to the part of you that used to check. Read February 2026 Durable Skills Nine skills I would still teach a kid or train an adult on for the foreseeable future, each with a short example. Read February 2026 Thinking With Machines A snapshot of research on how humans and machines think together, starting from the claim that we have already achieved superintelligence and it just requires a human. Read