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Mood Gets No Vote
Mood is not evidence. Discipline means distinguishing reluctance from real information and allowing changed circumstances—not discomfort—to guide action.
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Notes on decision-making, evaluation, discernment, and institutional judgment.
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On Competence
Competence is not always a prerequisite for responsibility. Often, responsibility creates the pressure through which adjacent skills become judgment. AI may compress learning and execution, but the willingness to be tested remains scarce.
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Happy Teachers’ Day
ESSAY · 10 MIN READ
A Portfolio of Minds Is Built by Subtraction
The networks that shape us are not the ones we can list, but the smaller set of minds whose judgment we permit to alter our own. A richer intellectual life may depend less on who we add than on whose authority we learn to withdraw.
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Can you notice the present before everyone agrees on what to call it?
Several earlier arguments about work, sovereignty, and AI are becoming less speculative as events catch up. The question is whether we can notice the present before consensus names it.
ESSAY · LinkedIn · 10 MIN READ
AI Is Too Important to Be Left To Its Believers
AI is too consequential to be left to enthusiasts. The conversation needs less prophecy, more proof, and a lot more precision.
