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Two strangers who cannot talk still find each other, because some answers are obvious to both. For all of history the obvious answer was made of shared history. AI is about to make it out of a shared machine, and this time the clock has an owner. … readThe New Grand Central
A 1969 book explained why the best worker makes a poor manager: the promotion rewards the job you had, not the one you are given. AI just handed that promotion to everyone at once, minus the half of management that breaks hearts. What remains is the half nobody practised. … readEveryone Just Got Promoted
A book for my students on the one sentence I teach about careers: let your first employer be your first customer. Why firms hire, how the job became a bundle, why low fixed costs are the whole strategy, and what your own AI changes about the line between employee and vendor. … readFirst Customer
Personal AI stacks may help people translate public systems into action, but civic access must not depend on buying, building, or trusting a private stack. … readThe Civic Counter | App to Stack
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
We call AI that acts for us an agent, a word named for what it does. The better word is delegate, from the Latin delegare: named for who sent it, bound by a mandate, and owing you a report when it comes back. … readMy AI Delegate
The word “user” describes a relationship with an object. AI is not a tool, so you don’t use it. You manage it. You are not its user but its manager, and delegation only runs one way: down, to something that answers to you. … readYou Are Not the User
The greats were never in love with the process. They were in love with an idea that had them. The dissertation is a compression format for a reader with almost no bandwidth, and AI is about to stop needing it. … readNobody Falls in Love With the Dissertation
For three centuries, institutions could act only on what they could read – so they made you readable: forms, formats, standard names. AI is the first reader that does not need you pre-shaped, and the burden of being understood is about to change hands. … readIn Your Own Words
Dots win my vote for the delegation dump: handing over several outcomes and putting the phone away. Elapsed time can rise while human attention cost falls, provided the work meets its deadline and the results are actually delivered. … readDots Are the Winner (So Far)