The Computer & Technology Network

Speaking arrives on its own. Reading has to be taught, every time. Post 1 of the Writing as a Technology series asks why that difference matters, and why writing was invented by accountants.

I stopped doing long division the day I got a calculator. Technical debt has a cognitive twin, and generative AI makes it far easier to run up. What should we still do ourselves?

Three months on from my first vault analysis, I ran the numbers again. The backlog shrank for the first time, the Readwise pile grew, and Claude found gaps I had not noticed. Here is what changed.

Part three of my Claude + Obsidian series: trying the new Fable model for a vault review, letting Buffer draft my social posts, and finally taming my notes backlog with an intent property.

A research paper on Cognitive Mirror Syndrome got me questioning whether AI mirrors us as individuals or as a species, and what that means for how we use it.

The final post in my Exponential Age series: what you can actually control when it comes to protecting your cognitive abilities as AI accelerates around you.