During the pandemic, I committed to exercising regularly. Here’s a simple snapshot of a year’s worth of data. The dropoffs happened after Thanksgiving and right before my dissertation defense. Need to work on maintaining the habit during the holidays and periods of stress.
I want to tell you what happened the last time I walked out of a back-to-back meeting block with three things spinning in my head. I took a screenshot of an email with a deadline in it. I sent a three-sentence voice memo to myself, half-formed, about a project that had stalled. I forwarded a…
The first time I watched a large language model generate research output in forty seconds, I was not impressed by the quality. I was impressed by the volume, and by how quickly it could pivot when I changed the question. The results were plausible, competently organized, and largely superficial. What changed things was connecting to…
The debate about AI’s effects has been running for three years and producing mostly heat. Not because the researchers are wrong. Because they are not studying the same thing. Here is the clearest version of what I mean. A major 2025 meta-analysis of 69 studies found that ChatGPT produces significant positive effects on academic performance,…
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