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Critical thinking and curiosity in the age of AI.
What you’ll find here: clear explanations, plus one practical way to use them. Every essay explains the mechanism behind an idea, then gives you one thing to try.
The Focused Human is about critical thinking and curiosity in the age of AI — how they help you protect your attention and make better use of AI.
What you’ll find here: clear explanations, plus one practical way to use them. Every essay explains the mechanism behind an idea, then gives you one thing to try.
New here? Pick your entry point:
Take the quiz (2 minutes)
Twelve questions about an ordinary week. You’ll learn the one drain costing you the most attention right now, and one thing to try about it.
Get The Attention Protocol (free)
A weekly practice: a 15-minute Sunday reset, a 5-minute daily check-in, and a Friday review. Printable worksheets, one week at a time.
The core ideas underneath everything here — a working model of attention, energy, and how they shape your thinking.
The Focused Human goes deeper on attention, direction, and reality.
The short version: your attention is the scarcest thing you own, and AI is making it scarcer. This site is about thinking clearly anyway — and enjoying the process.
Prefer listening? The podcast is on YouTube.