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The Confidence Trick
Why AI sounds most certain exactly when it's wrong — and why catching it is the reading skill of the decade.
July 20, 2026 · about 8 min
The Best Question Beats the Right Answer
School grades answers. The AI era pays for questions. How question-asking quietly became the new literacy.
July 21, 2026 · about 8 min
Your Kid Already Has an AI Tutor. Nobody Hired It.
Recommendation feeds are teaching your kid for hours a day, with a curriculum nobody chose. What deliberate AI learning looks like instead.
July 22, 2026 · about 8 min
Machines Don't Have Taste
Everything AI makes is average by design. Taste — knowing what's good and why — is the job opening for this generation.
July 23, 2026 · about 8 min
The archive — for members
Bilingual in Human and Machine
This is the first generation that will speak fluently to both people and models. What that fluency actually is — and what it must never replace.
Opening free to read · full talk with membership
Slow Thinking in a Fast-Answer World
When answers are instant, patience becomes a superpower. Teaching kids to verify.
The Library Card Argument
What public libraries got right in 1879 that AI access is getting wrong in 2026.
Small Models, Big Rooms
Owning intelligence versus renting it — and why a kid with a tiny computer beats a kid with a subscription.
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