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The Kotzker Rebbe famously asked his disciples where God dwells. Schooled in the rudiments of theology, they answered, “Everywhere.” Doesn’t the proph

People of steady faith cannot always understand why the rest of us do not simply open our hearts.

God will not dispense health like a cosmic vendor or be enlisted as a party to our quarrels. The only real promise is presence. What God wants from me

When the Seer of Lublin, a great Hasidic master, was a child, he would wander in the forest. His father asked him why, and he said, “I go there to fin

Our future will be characterized by a tension between copilot (AI as collaborator) and autopilot (humans as sidekick to AI). The latter is more effici

Turning the Tables on AI

For those of us who are not geniuses, it may be tempting to outsource some portion of our creativity to the AI, so we can get past the fact of our non

AI’s creative contribution also enhances the creative performance of old intellectuals, because the bottom line is not the number of ideas. It’s how w

"You won’t write well until you understand that writing is an evolving process, not a finished product. Nobody expects you to get it right the first t

Putting ideas into words is a severe test. The first words you choose are usually wrong; you have to rewrite sentences over and over to get them exact

To him - and again, he is not alone in this - the benefit of generative AI is in streamlining the production of a text product.

Writing is hard, and it’s not surprising that the promise of removing that friction from the writing process is appealing. But we need to be able to r

You just have to grab hold of what awakens a sense of loving curiosity in you. If you pursue those things, they never cease to open up to new question

As you build newthing you will discover that building a newthing is a strange act where the harder you go about trying to do it, the harder it becomes

Psychologist Adam Grant on how to elicit feedback: “When people hesitate to give honest feedback on an idea, draft, or performance, I ask for a 0-1

“When feedback is immediate, clear, and concrete, people learn quickly. When feedback is delayed, abstract, and opaque, people rarely learn.”

If that's not bad enough, the second inconvenient truth is that even with the ideas that do prove to have potential, it typically takes several iterat

I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve already heard about