A place to slow down. To reflect. To remember that we’ve navigated transitions before, and we’ll navigate this one too.
FEATURED
The question I asked Bill Gates in 1995
Syndicated across 17 newspapers in five countries. Entered as Exhibit 333 in U.S. v. Microsoft. Still writing the answer thirty years later.
This Week’s Millennial Reflection
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What happens when companies tell everyone to use AI — then quietly tell them to stop
Meta, Uber, Amazon, Microsoft — all quietly rolling back the AI mandates they pushed hard on two years ago. A 24-minute analysis of what’s happening behind the corporate AI narrative, and who’s actually paying the price. From Tech Unfiltered on YouTube, with sourcing across The Verge, Financial Times, Fortune, and NY Fed labor data.
This Week’s Tip on Using Claude
Claude’s research function: the two-step trick that makes it actually useful
Claude’s research mode searches the web, reads sources, and gives you a real sourced answer. But most people get bad results from it because they use it the wrong way. The fix is a simple two-step workflow: craft the research prompt with Claude first (research mode off), then toggle research on and paste it in. The difference in answer quality is dramatic.
This Week’s Article on Responsible AI
Microsoft’s CEO: people’s judgment still matters in the AI age
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella argues the real AI advantage isn’t the best model but keeping human judgment central — and warns that a future where a few models capture all the value and hollow out industries won’t be tolerated.
This Week on AI and Human Impact
What AI is doing to how we think — and what the research actually says
A careful 16-minute look at what current research shows about AI’s effects on how humans think — including a recent MIT EEG study where 83% of ChatGPT users couldn’t quote a single line from the essay they just wrote. The piece is honest about caveats and ends on the most important point: the tool isn’t the problem, the way we use it is. From Your AI Guy on YouTube.