Writing things down by hand forces me to engage and struggle with the material for an extended period of time. It forces me to take my time. To go over things again and again. To be immersed. To be focused, patient, and disciplined. To come to understand things deeply.

The irony of AI, this cutting-edge technology, is that it makes the oldest... See more

This is what people miss about AI. There’s a lot of talk about why we should be worried about AI making us or certain things obsolete. It’s going to make the humanities obsolete. It’s going to make books, artists, knowledge workers, and expertise itself obsolete.

But the opposite is true! To use these tools well—to not be used by them—you need... See more