Process
So what could that look like in our lives? It means rescuing little ideas that gleam for a second in our soul then disappear. Coaxing them back. It means attention to not this or that but possibly both or some other way entirely. This isn’t necessarily easy, being so conditioned as we are to yes or no, black or white. And sometimes that third posit... See more
Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries
Work is changing
Work is changing, and we're only beginning to understand how. What's clear from these experiments is that the relationship between human expertise and AI capabilities isn't fixed. Sometimes I found myself acting as a creative director, other times as a troubleshooter, and yet other times as a domain expert validating results. It wa... See more
Work is changing, and we're only beginning to understand how. What's clear from these experiments is that the relationship between human expertise and AI capabilities isn't fixed. Sometimes I found myself acting as a creative director, other times as a troubleshooter, and yet other times as a domain expert validating results. It wa... See more
Ethan Mollick • Speaking things into existence
Every morning, before the rush of emails, meetings, and to-do lists, I sit quietly and think slowly (with thanks to Daniel Kahneman). It’s not always easy—my mind often races ahead (with thanks to my ADD)—but I've found that even brief moments of mindfulness help me prepare for a day of writing. This necessary pause helps me notice my thoughts with... See more
Prompting with Mindfulness: How My Rhetorical Prompting Method Encourages Deeper Thinking
Archives As Anchors
Collecting and archiving are ways to reclaim and own our attention—they are acts of meaning-making. These practices are rituals: habits and skills that demand time, patience, and a willingness to look beyond the surface.
Collecting and archiving are ways to reclaim and own our attention—they are acts of meaning-making. These practices are rituals: habits and skills that demand time, patience, and a willingness to look beyond the surface.
Patricia Hurducaș • Archives: Anchors For Attention
The beauty of the rabbit hole, and the warren you create by falling down it, is how it activates your curiosity to generate new, reflective pockets of information and knowledge. And the better you become at “finding,” the more portals emerge, and the farther you get from a complete sense of having found. The state of curiosity is one of abundance: ... See more
Syllabus • How to Fall Down a Rabbit Hole
Over long periods of time spent in physical archives, you develop a holistic picture of a slice of history that is necessarily individual to you, as the researcher, because you can’t control or even fully understand what your brain finds interesting in a set of documents. They’re just ... interesting . Maybe not to anyone else, at first. But over t... See more
Benjamin Breen • AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research
