mapping the crazy AI world

Contextual value is a measure of how crucial a task is to the performance or stability of a larger system. It’s not about whether a task is hard to do or emotionally meaningful; it’s about whether it is structurally indispensable to a system operating under certain constraints.

When constraints change, the contextual value of tasks in the system ch... See more

In an attention-scarce and knowledge-abundant economy, we’re increasingly buying signals, not inherent expertise.

Rather than reaching definitive conclusions about how AI will transform work, I find myself collecting observations about a moving target. What seems consistent is that, for now, the greatest value comes not from surrendering control entirely to AI or clinging to entirely human workflows, but from finding the right points of collaboration for each ... See more

The most valuable resource isn’t algorithms, compute, or even just data. It’s context: the mosaic of real-time signals, history, recent mood shifts, stray calendar invites, and the live-wire pattern that is “you, right now.”

Rather than go away, in the future, the term “designer” might actually grow to cover a whole range of jobs in which a person’s main function is to steer A.I. to create something compelling — a product, a service, a process — based largely on their taste.

In systems marked by structural uncertainty, value is created not by declaring what is known, but by directing attention to what remains unresolved.

The most valuable answers today are not those that appear most complete and articulate, but those that reveal where we must continue looking

The principle “Life cannot be delegated” is simply a guidepost.5 It keeps before us the possibility that we might, if we are not careful, delegate away a form of life that is full and whole, rewarding and meaningful. We ought to be especially careful in the cases where what we delegate to a device, app, agent, or system is an aspect of how we expre... See more