The Computer & Technology Network

I’d used the term meta-skill in two recent posts without defining it. So I went back to my vault to work out what one is, with reading, writing and metacognition as examples.

A phrase I didn’t understand started it. Around 50 conversations later, here’s what using Claude as a reading partner gives me, what it costs, and how I keep the thinking my own.

Seek knowledge, discover, invent, build tools, explore again. That loop has always had a human in the middle. AI is now working in three of its five stages.

I first used the Web in 1996 on a college computer. Thirty years later, a personal look at what the Internet gave me, what it cost me, and the one finding I can’t argue with.

The oldest objection to writing was that it would make us forget. It was right. We made that trade so long ago we stopped noticing, which matters, because AI is offering us another one.

instein could not have written general relativity without reading Newton, 228 years after Newton wrote it down. Post 2 of the Writing as a Technology series, on the invention everything else runs on.