Daniel Wentsch

The iterative process of confusion, endurance, and incremental understanding is what literature professors teach when they assign whole books. This march toward understanding doesn’t have a great name other than reading . We need to help students grow into the difficulty of reading. The best way to do that is not to “meet them where they are,” a

If you’re nervous about events, it’s often because of their unpredictability. Will you know someone there? When’s a good time to arrive? Will I be expected to do something? The best way out of this is to organise your own. These problems disappear. Other problems arrive but we’ll solve them below.

Schön, in einer Sommernacht durch so einen Duft zu fahren. Weil es so ein plötzliches Gefühl von Jetzt war. Jetzt war Sommer. Er würde vorbeigehen, aber jetzt war Sommer.

This gives us a roadmap to doing more creative work. What we need to do is, in the exploration phase, raise the perceived value of doing the work, raise the perceived costs of not doing the work, and lower the perceived value of doing other things.

The irony is that we achieve far more in the long run when we have slack. We are more productive when we don’t try to be productive all the time.

We have already outsourced the worst part of writing (checking grammar) and math (long division) to machines like spell checkers and calculators, which freed us from these tedious tasks. It would be natural to use LLMs to extend the process. And this is indeed what we have seen in some early research on using AI for work. People who use AI to do

Ich habe mir das als Elternteil früher nicht vorstellen können, aber nun wird es sehr real. Einiges, was man immer schon mal mit den Kindern machen wollte, eine bestimmte Reise vielleicht, wird man nie machen können. Etliches, von dem man gedacht hat, dafür sei ja noch Zeit, wird nicht mehr stattfinden. Die Zeit dafür ist um.