August 2025

The Digital Dementia: How TikTok and Instagram Are Rewiring Our Brains
A story about how Cal Newport's "Deep Work" made me realize my brain might be melting.
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Emergency GPT Kit: A Story About AI, Survival, and Taking Back Control
A random idea that struck me recently (no promises to build it anytime soon)…
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𝐖𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐀𝐈? 𝐂𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝.
I've been experimenting with building small apps on Lovable for months now.
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MIT vs AI - 5 Reasons Why Alex is Ahead of John (And Why Traditional Education is Getting Disrupted)
The world is splitting into two camps.
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On Luck and Impostor Syndrome
"You just got lucky…" - sound familiar?
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Thoughts on Retirement
Why the idea of working so you can do nothing later - doesn't work
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AI Psychoses: A New Trend in Psychology
X (Twitter) and The New York Times are discussing a fresh phenomenon in AI psychology: psychoses induced by conversations with ChatGPT.
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The Right to Knowledge - The Right to Life
With the release of new models like ChatGPT-5 and Claude Opus, I find myself thinking more and more about the movie Dallas Buyers Club in the context of…
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