Daniel Wentsch

As users of large language models, we benefit from relating to both Vygotsky's and Mollick's theories. We need to understand both in which areas they are actually better than us, and how we best utilize the models when we want them to help us in our learning. Translated to the use of a language model and Mollick's idea of a jagged edge, the zone of

Winnicott’s crucial insight was that the parents’ agony was coming from a particular place: excessive hope. Their despair was a consequence of a cruel and counterproductive perfectionism. To help them reduce this, Winnicott developed a charming phrase: ‘the good enough parent’. No child, he insisted, needs an ideal parent. They just need an OK,

People often fundamentally misunderstand AI as a creative tool: They assume it’s meant to do everything, replacing human creativity entirely. They’re afraid that the resulting work is soulless, inhuman.

But using AI well is like using any other tool well. You employ it for tasks that are best suited to its abilities. You act as an editor for

For almost five years now, I’ve kept a note on my phone called my ineffable list. It’s a trick I learned from the writer Robin Sloan . Every time I come across something in the world that makes me pause—that has a little bit of that flavor of whatever it is that I like—I put it in my ineffable list.

I threw a list of my favorite writers into ChatGPT and asked it to describe what was common about them.