Charlie Gedeon
@charliegedeon
Reflecting on how learning and creativity are shaped by technology and our interactions with it. Co-founder of Pragmatics Studio, a small digital design studio in Montreal.
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The direction language models indeed prompt you to follow (pun intended) often leads you somewhere boring — to the land of averages
Alberto Romero • You Are Killing Your Greatest Ideas
There is a lot of evidence suggesting that students learn best and more quickly through asset-based approaches. Meyer’s expertise is in math, but the same is true in writing and I am a dedicated practitioner of working from a base of what students already know and can do, the most notable skill being thinking . Everyone can think, but a huge... See more
John Warner • Genius vs. Expertise
A Conversation Between Matt Berninger and David Letterman
youtube.com"There's nothing wrong with water until you're under it." — Matt Berninger in conversation with David Letterman about depression.
Our future will be characterized by a tension between copilot (AI as collaborator) and autopilot (humans as sidekick to AI).
Google’s NotebookLM Aims to Be the Ultimate Writing Assistant
Learning means being able to use new information. The basic process of learning consists of reflection and feedback. We learn facts and concepts through reflecting on experience—our own or others’. If you read something and you don’t make time to think about what you’ve read, you won’t be able to use any of the wisdom you’ve been exposed to.
Rosie • How to Remember What You Read
Brings to mind how lots of generative AI will usher in a whole new level of convenience for even more tasks. Powerful quote:
Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all destination and no journey. But climbing a mountain is different from taking the tram to the top, even if you end up at the same place. We are becoming people who care mainly or only about outcomes. We are at risk of making most of our life experiences a series of trolley rides.
If you’ve ever felt that you can’t focus on a task when you’re hungry — or that all you can think about is food — the neural evidence backs you up. Work from a few years ago confirmed that short-term hunger can change neural processing and bias our attention in ways that may help us find food faster.
quantamagazine.org • The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses | Quanta Magazine
One of the best ways I’ve found to organize one’s thoughts about a huge swath of intellectual and creative space, is to write a syllabus.