Ibukun Taiwo

Ideas have to come from somewhere, and, for both humans and machines, those somewheres are often the words and images we’ve absorbed.

I’m reminded of the Grimms’ fairy tale “The Elves and the Shoemaker.” A poor but gifted shoemaker is barely keeping his business afloat. He has the talent, but not enough time or resources. Enter a band of cheerful, i... See more

What It’s Like to Brainstorm with a Bot

There are little ideas and big ones, their size determined by how much they rearrange our understanding—of the world or of ourselves. Some ideas are about forging connections, like Luke’s insight about disentanglement. Others work through analogy: hearing a story in one context and rewriting it for another. We use what we understand to make sense o... See more

Let me start with, for me, the best networking tip I've ever heard:

When someone tells you what they do, respond with some variation of "wow, that sounds really hard!"

Academic publishing is a game. And a lucrative one for those who win. There is ample evidence of excessive self-citation; citation cartels, researchers trading citations amongst themselves; coercive citations, journal editors pressuring researchers to cite their own journal to boost its ranking; and now a citation black market, where fifty citation... See more

Writing is a skill. It's a technology we developed to communicate with one another. It's not something innate to the human experience; we are not born knowing how to write. In fact, an entire society can thrive without a writing system. So because writing is a technology, a skill, it requires practice. It's a muscle you can strengthen. It's a craft... See more