The problem with “throwaway” thinking

Many people hedge their opinions to appear nice, flexible, or civil. What they’re really doing is avoiding risk. Throwaway input can’t be argued with, because no one owns it. It can’t be improved, because no one will defend it. And it can’t teach anyone anything, because no one is accountable.

Kids don’t want shortcuts. They don’t want everything to be easy. They want challenges that leave marks—on their hands, on their work, on their identity. They want artifacts that say I put in the time.

What Scrabble taught me that I shouldn’t have forgotten

You tried to break me. You didn’t.

The Habits Japan Gave Me—Before I Even Realized I Was Learning Them

Go through that door

Not every bud blossoms. And that’s OK.

Did brain size increases drive the “original” singularity?

Wake up Rip Van Winkle

What if Genghis Khan was President?

The hidden cost of certainty

Bye bye Dad bod! I am never going to see you again!

To be, or not to be an AI augmented

The Sky, Interrupted

Every day is the same yet so different

When Macaw Met Toucan

Devices Divide Us

No, I am not surprised. I read your book.