The Great Matters
A lesson for my students on what to delegate, from Exodus 18: send the small matters down, respect rank and order, and never send your AI to a person who is worthy of your own attention. … readThe Great Matters
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Rinse and Repeat
On a big, complicated project, don’t plan the first move. Write the outcome, run three reasoning lenses, and let them discover the cheapest evidence that would move the most. Three loops on one merger: call the customers, pull the warranty file, re-cut one number. … readRinse and Repeat
Settled, Resolved, Yours
A worked run of three reasoning lenses on one axiom, a merger press release, with a negotiation round between them. The lesson for advanced students: sort the result into settled, resolved and yours, and the last bin is your job. … readSettled, Resolved, Yours
Super Admin: The Advanced Course in Personal AI
A complete course for advanced students of personal AI: how to take the seat of the one who draws the table, carries the intention, sets the boundary and remains the author, in five parts and eighteen labs. … readSuper Admin: The Advanced Course in Personal AI
Sixteen Futures, One Past
Turn a dial from 100% uncertainty to 0% and watch the future become the past, one bit at a time. A playable thought from my new free book, How the Future Becomes the Past: A Mythology of Quantum Gravity. … readSixteen Futures, One Past
Fear Rides Along. You Feel It on the Turn.
Fear and hope ride along in every Reality as the angle attention cannot read. Like velocity, they are carried and unfelt, and they reach you only on a quarter turn: the two sentences you write. … readFear Rides Along. You Feel It on the Turn.
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
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