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Why Can’t I Read a Book Anymore?
Long reading is a capacity, and capacities come back. Here is what wore this one down, and the three conditions that rebuild it.
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Which skills are worth keeping as AI takes on more of the work, and why the effort is part of the value.
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Does GPS Weaken Your Sense of Direction?
Turn-by-turn directions get you there every time. Your sense of where you are is a separate skill, and it stays sharp when you use it.
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Does Writing by Hand Still Do Something for You?
Typing is faster. A pen does something different, and a few moments in your week are worth the two minutes it costs.
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Why New York City Banned AI in Schools Through 8th Grade
A city decided what its children should keep practicing. Nobody is making that decision for you. On September 2, New York City announced the broadest restriction on classroom AI in the country. Understanding why they did it gives you a question worth asking about your own week. What did New
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Before You Automate With AI, Ask What You Need to Keep Practicing
A faster workflow can solve today’s task while changing what you are prepared to do tomorrow. What happened Imagine an AI agent that reads your meeting notes, updates the project plan, assigns follow-ups, and sends everyone a summary. It removes an hour of administrative work. It also means
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What changes when we start relying on AI regularly?
Now, what changes now. Not in some distant science-fiction future. In the work we do, the skills we keep, the things we stop practicing, and how well we can tell when AI gets something wrong. If AI does something for you, do you slowly lose the ability to do
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Don’t Use AI to Skip the Part Where You Learn
AI expands capability. Human attention supplies direction.
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Humanity in the Age of AI
What Makes Us Irreplaceable? You wake up. Check your phone before your feet hit the floor. Scroll through notifications while your coffee brews. Answer emails during breakfast. Begin responding to demands before you've decided what actually matters today. By 10 AM, you've consumed more information than
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Curiosity is a State, Not a Trait
We often treat curiosity like a personality trait—something you’re either born with or you aren’t. Let's think of curiosity this way: not as a character trait, but a physiological state. When your attention is pressured, curiosity collapses. When your attention settles, curiosity returns on its
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Why Stress is Such a Powerful Enemy of Luck
Or why "lucky" people notice things others don’t. Some people seem to spot opportunities early. They hear the one sentence in a meeting that actually matters. They sense a shift in the market before it becomes a headline. They move first—and when they succeed, everyone else
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AI Isn’t Replacing You. It’s Rewiring You.
For years, most of us lived on autopilot. Habits ran our days. Media shaped our thoughts quietly. Life moved at a pace where you didn’t need to pay close attention to stay grounded. But the world has changed faster than our nervous systems have. We now live inside an