The Machine Is Resting. Why Aren’t You?
AI helps us do more, then leaves us managing more. Add projects that ban it, and the modern workday becomes a test of how much efficiency one brain can survive.
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Degrees, Drills and Algorithms: Rethinking Education in the Age of AI
AI is reshaping the value of degrees and apprenticeships, rewarding adaptable people who combine critical thinking, practical skills and human judgment.
The Man Who Looked at TSMC and Thought: Fine, I’ll Build My Own
Musk's chip-factory ambition becomes a case study in impatience, vertical integration, and the difference between strategy decks and industrial action.
The Fragmentation of Knowledge Work
Anthropic's labor research suggests AI is not replacing whole jobs so much as fragmenting knowledge work task by task.
The Laptop Rule and the White-Collar Delusion
The laptop class may be more exposed to AI than it admits, because text-heavy office work is exactly where models thrive.
The Hidden Cost of AI Speed: Why “More Output” Feels Like Burnout
AI speed can create exhaustion rather than relief when output accelerates but judgment, review, and responsibility remain human.
Prompting’s Midlife Crisis: Turning Incantations into Infrastructure
Prompting is outgrowing folklore and becoming infrastructure: specifications, patterns, evaluation, and operational discipline.
The Hidden Toll of AI in the Workplace
Behind efficiency promises, workplace AI may reshape pressure, monitoring, and cognitive load in ways managers prefer not to measure.
Resulting, not consulting
Traditional consulting is attacked as performance without results, with AI exposing how much of the industry was polished busywork.
The Tool Is Not the Craft
AI adoption fails when organizations confuse access to tools with mastery of the craft needed to use them responsibly.
AI Didn’t Kill Office Work — It Exposed It
Generative AI did not invent office busywork; it made the fakery cheaper, faster, and much harder to deny.
A Small Praise of Hand and Mind
A defense of handwriting as cognitive discipline, arguing that the hand still teaches attention in a world of instant text.
AGI and Global Finance: Abundance and Instability
If AGI makes money less meaningful, why are AI companies raising so much of it? The contradiction becomes the story.
When AI Becomes Your Shopkeeper: The Curious Case of Claudius
Anthropic's AI shopkeeper experiment shows both the charm and absurdity of letting an autonomous model run a small business.
The Jevons Effect and the Rise of Large Language Models: A Modern Paradox
The Jevons paradox explains why more efficient AI may increase total consumption rather than reduce costs or energy use.