Sun.Jun 29, 2025

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Does AI Make Us Lazy?

Cal Newport

Last fall, I published a New Yorker essay titled, “What Kind of Writer is ChatGPT?”. My goal for the piece was to better understand how undergraduate and graduate college students were using AI to help with their writing assignments. At the time, there was concern that these tools would become plagiarism machines. (“AI seems almost built for cheating,” wrote Ethan Mollick in his bestselling book, Co-Intelligence.

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How to Deal with People Who Seem to Lack Common Sense

Steve Keating

I started writing this post when I was flat-out mad. I mean really, really mad. So mad that I completely forgot about the post I wrote a few weeks ago about losing your temper. So I put the post aside until I settled down a bit. I hope that makes for a better post, but honestly, as I start writing again, the urge to strangle a certain someone is building again.