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I went digging through the research on AI and thinking skills expecting to write a think piece, and instead found something better: a bunch of studies …

I've been using an AI assistant for everything for two years now, and at some point I noticed a small, unsettling thing: when the model handed …

I kept seeing this line pasted everywhere: [you can outsource your thinking, but you can't outsource your understanding](#planned-you-can-outsource-your-thinking-but-you-cannot-outsource-your-understanding), the full quote, broken down, is a claim …

Outsourcing your thinking means [handing the thinking itself](#planned-you-can-outsource-your-thinking) to an external agent like ChatGPT, and yes, that's different from using a tool to store or compute.nt …

Game mechanics are the rules, or "ludemes", that shape what a player can do and how the game responds. A rule tells you how to play; …

I went looking for a way to turn my brother's photo into a Funko Pop for his birthday, assuming this was a solved problem. It's not …

There's a trick buried in the way Funko prints its boxes, and I stumbled on it the way most good rabbit holes start: staring at a …

I went down a rabbit hole recently and found the thing I didn't know I needed: a Funko service where you can literally pop yourself. Pop! …