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Category: Productivity

August 9, 2026

John Daly and the Bunker Problem

Robin Williams famously made one of the funniest observations about the game of golf by reducing it down to it’s absurd fundamentals. Someone took a perfectly good landscape […]

July 21, 2026

Your North Star Comes Before AI

Many discussions about artificial intelligence begin with the wrong question. People ask, What can AI do? The more important question is, What is the human trying to accomplish? […]

July 19, 2026

Authorship in the Age of AI

  Every new technology seems to make us revisit old questions. Artificial intelligence is doing that now with authorship, because it has made it possible to separate the […]

July 16, 2026

Why Conversations Create Ideas

Most people imagine that ideas are born in solitude. We picture a writer sitting alone at a desk, a philosopher staring thoughtfully out a window, or an inventor […]

July 15, 2026

AI as an External Thinking Partner

Artificial intelligence is often described in extremes. Depending on who you ask, it’s either going to replace millions of jobs and eventually surpass humanity, or it’s the greatest […]

July 13, 2026

The Incentives We Create

After I began paying closer attention to incentives, I noticed something unexpected. The idea was no longer limited to economics. It gradually became a way of observing almost […]

July 6, 2026

Why Trust Will Decide the Future of AI

After using ChatGPT for less than two weeks, I’ve already come to a conclusion that differs from both the fear and the hype surrounding artificial intelligence. Before I […]