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Which skills, exactly?
We increasingly acknowledge the risk of cognitive degradation resulting from over-reliance on AI. We also recognise humans will need to retain some…
Sep 24
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Be Hard on Systems, but Soft on People
A useful principle to apply from cults to mobile operators. Part 2 of how technology earns the right to disappear.
Sep 17
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Sami Makelainen
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In Praise of Boring Productivity Tools
The non-AI tools that will actually improve your productivity
Sep 9
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Sami Makelainen
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The Micromanager's Revenge
Part 1: Why your best delegators are about to become your worst AI managers
Aug 13
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Sami Makelainen
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In Your Face, Behind Your Back
The two places technology goes without asking. Part 1 of 2.
Aug 11
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Sami Makelainen
AI Productivity Tip of the Year: Buy Better Microphones
On my desk sits an Apogee MiC+, a studio-grade USB condenser I bought during COVID.
Aug 1
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The Bad AI Neighbors Are a Choice
I’m going to try something different with this post, and try to be on the good side of Churchill’s famous “I would have written a shorter letter but I…
Jul 25
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How I Review Books
A Disclosure of Biases and Methods
Jul 18
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Sami Makelainen
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No Hands Left to Fly
We imagined five futures for AI and love. They have all arrived at once, and not one of them is why we're lonely.
May 31
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My AI ≠ Your AI
How the same technology becomes a thousand different tools and why "it depends" is the only honest answer to any question about AI.
Mar 26
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The Futures Dramaturg
GenAI for foresight has crossed a threshold. The profession now needs to cross one too.
Feb 22
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The Grace Margin
Why the world runs on exceptions and what happens when we automate them away
Feb 5
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