The $106 Trillion Classroom
The world’s infrastructure needs offer students a practical direction: learn how physical systems work, then use AI to improve a measurable part of the work. … readThe $106 Trillion Classroom
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You Do It. You Decide.
My two favorite AI prompts are four words long: “You do it” and “You decide.” Stop telling AI how, describe the state change you want, push back when it hands the work back, and log what it cannot do yet, because that list expires. … readYou Do It. You Decide.
One Will Be Clicking. The Other Will Be Delegating.
Two people can use the same AI on the same afternoon and be doing entirely different jobs: one keeps operating it like software, the other forms a working relationship and hands over outcomes. … readOne Will Be Clicking. The Other Will Be Delegating.
One Reading, Two Unknowns
Surprise is one number made from two, and the feeling does not come labelled with which term moved: a world that fell short and an expectation that had grown produce readings identical to the third decimal. A single reading is a line of position, not a fix — which is why the numerator gets convicted, why disagreement is the only gauge of a denominator, and why a forecast written before the world arrives is the one artifact that makes the next reading identifiable. … readOne Reading, Two Unknowns
Every Formula Is a First Term
E = mc² is the first term of a series that never ends, and so are F = ma, Hooke’s law and the ideal gas. Not because the true law is infinitely long: because every smooth structure looks like its tangent from wherever you stand, and an expansion point is a frame. Part Eleven, for philosophers and theologians: Taylor’s theorem, why the series dies where it does, and what no series can see. … readEvery Formula Is a First Term
Surprise Has an Imaginary Part
The Reality Equation reads surprise as the natural log of Actual over Expectation. That log was never a choice — any readout of a ratio that adds must be a logarithm — and taken on an expectation that has an angle it splits into a real part you feel and an imaginary part that is the angle itself, which you cannot feel at all. … readSurprise Has an Imaginary Part
You Are the Company
A coworker is anyone who works with you — no shared title, department, or rank required — and once you accept that, the company your working life organizes around turns out to be you, not your employer. … readYou Are the Company
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John Rector’s Math Lab
Eleven experiments and an epilogue in the order that breaks things properly, starting with the diagonal that broke the only numbers anyone believed in. Every crack ever found in mathematics has ended as a theorem. … readJohn Rector’s Math Lab
The Wall Is a Change of Sign
Classical mechanics forbids the crossing for an exact reason: inside the barrier there is no real number left to be the momentum. The Schrödinger equation carries on — one coefficient changes sign, oscillation becomes decay, and the faint exponential tail on the far side is why the Sun shines and how the first microscope to image atoms worked. Part Ten, for philosophers and theologians: tunnelling without the folklore. … readThe Wall Is a Change of Sign