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Cognitive bandwidth is the capacity to hold a complex problem clearly in mind, direct work intelligently, and stay oriented when the pace of execution is no longer the limiting factor.

every era of technological change doesn’t just change what we can do. It changes where we get stuck. And right now, most of us are not paying enough attention to where the new stuck actually is.

The turtle can’t argue its way out of the spin.

What Dick’s reversal suggests, and what I find genuinely useful here, is this: the way through is not better information about AI. It is better information about yourself.

If you understand why you oscillate, you stop mistaking the oscillation for a malfunction. You recognize it as the honest response... See more

Not long ago, I spent a weekend writing code with Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant. I’ve been programming for more than 20 years. I was one of the first engineers at Facebook, where I built the original search engine. I went on to become chief technology officer of Dropbox, where I scaled the engineering team from 25 people to a thousand. Code has... See more

Goldman Sachs says AI added basically zero to US GDP in 2025, 80% of firms report no productivity gains. But they’re measuring the wrong unit: institutions (companies running pilots, hiring Chief AI Officers, building governance frameworks) while a small number of individuals like myself have already deployed capabilities that no Fortune 500 has... See more

Nobel Prize winner Daron Acemoglu and colleagues argue in a new paper that AI could shrink the knowledge commons by eliminating the public trail of human problem-solving. For instance, a software engineer may use AI to diagnose a bug and ship the fix. Instead of working through it in public on platforms like Stack Overflow, they solve the issue in... See more