Thinking out loud about what AI actually means. Focused on the gap between the promise and the reality.
- Alt-Tab
We tell ourselves AI frees us for deep work. I am starting to wonder if the act of using it is quietly doing the opposite. I was making an internal slide deck the other day. Copilot in PowerPoint is still hopeless if you ask it to build a whole presentation from nothing, but slide by… - Eating to Live or Living to Eat
I’m using AI exactly the way I think everyone should. It’s nearly midnight and that turns out to be the problem. It’s 23:30. The kids want to go fishing tomorrow, early, and I should be asleep. Instead I’m writing code for a hobby project nobody asked for and thinking about AI. There’s an old distinction… - The Trust Layer
I do not use one AI. I use several, deliberately, for different things. Here is why that matters and what I have learned from each one. Most conversations about AI tools collapse into a single question: which one is best? Wrong question. The interesting one, the one serious users eventually land on, is which tool… - The Master Prompt
Before I ask a new AI tool to do anything useful, I tell it who I am. It is the highest-leverage ten minutes I spend with any of them. Whenever I start using a new AI tool, the first thing I do is write it a master prompt. Not a question or a task, but… - The Race is Plugged In
The AI competition between the US and China is no longer just about chips and models. It is about who can keep the lights on. When people talk about the AI race between the United States and China, the conversation usually lands on chips. Export controls, NVIDIA restrictions, Huawei’s response, who gets the best hardware….
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