Matt Little

A new creative intelligence isn’t about prompting better. It’s about using AI to build environments where human creativity evolves. Where we can access forms of thinking that weren’t possible before. Where creativity doesn’t just survive automation - it reaches a higher plane because of it.

Systems literacy is reading incentives, power structures, and unspoken rules.

It’s understanding why decisions get made the way they do. Not what people say motivates them, but what the structure actually rewards. Not who has the title, but who has the power. Not what’s in the handbook, but what actually determines who gets ahead.

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The ability to sense when systems are dying. To question what we’re optimising for. To understand the sustainability, or lack thereof, of how we’re operating. To read human complexity.

Women weren’t pushed out despite having those capacities. We were pushed out because of them.

And now, what we expelled is the only thing that can navigate what comes... See more

The framework trades accuracy for tractability. And usually, that trade is worth it for practical purposes. The problem comes when you forget you made the trade

This is an idea that Nietzsche would have found sympathetic - he said that we are artists of our own lives, and that art requires illusion. The illusion here is preemptive belief: the ability to act from a place of imagined inevitability, to say, “I will meet this standard,” and to let that belief shape your behavior as if it were already true.... See more

On role models: “I remember there was this quote Ocean Vuong said in an interview where he likened the rules of life to a guardrail where if you’re driving down a road and you’re following the guardrail, you’re just going to end up somewhere that’s already discovered on a map. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing, but sometimes you sit down and... See more

hese are all displacements, though. The real and unconquerable addiction is to our phones. This fact is made all the more uncomfortable in that we don’t really have a choice. Just try holding down a job without a phone. The radiation in your pocket might slowly be giving you cancer, but without it – in America at least – you won’t have healthcare.... See more

We are no longer so sure materialism defines the good life; that meritocracy is attainable. The world has gotten so big, fairness is purely theoretical. Modernity is so old, we no longer believe consumerism will solve our spiritual problems. The conceptual supports for the American Dream are up for debate.

And by engaging in this debate, we... See more