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The Blind Spot of Competence: A Collision Story
Yesterday, I collided with another skier in a turn. It happened on the last run of the last day of a memorable ski season, and it left me with an injury that could have been avoided. Two skiers cutting wide, both confident, both feeling in control. Both responsible. My shoulder is stiff this morning, but…
Artificial Intelligence: The More We Write, the Less We Read Ourselves
There’s a trend gaining momentum without much discussion. AI has drastically reduced the cost of producing written content. Protocols, policies, practice guidelines, meeting summaries, project reports, long, well-structured emails… Because writing has become easy, we write. For just about any reason. Without really asking ourselves if it needs to exist. This change seems trivial. It…
Confusing Knowledge with Understanding: The AI trap
Last week I decided to try Fitbit’s AI coaching feature. It’s still in preview, positioned as a glimpse of where Fitbit wants to take personalized fitness. The concept is appealing: an AI coach powered by Gemini that learns your goals, studies your habits, and builds a training plan tailored to you. I came in prepared.…
Tonight, I Choose Us…
Today I heard about another divisive moment in the news. I’m not going to name it. You probably already know. What hit me wasn’t the event itself. It was the noise that followed. The outrage. The counter-outrage. The takes on the takes. And somewhere in all of it, we lose each other a little more.…
Right, Wrong, Good, Bad, AI and Variable Geometry
We keep trying to nail down a single, definitive answer to questions about AI. But here’s the thing: we’re dealing with a problem that shifts shape depending on where you’re standing. There’s no universal answer that fits every situation. A nuanced mind can hold multiple positions at once, see things from different angles, and make…
The morning I realized I was being fed AI music
It started in other places first. You’ve seen those videos. A kitten doing something impossibly cute with its human. A heartwarming scene that grabs your attention for three seconds, gets a like, maybe a share, then vanishes from your mind completely. AI-generated content is everywhere now. We scroll past it, react to it, forward it…
Three Ways People Work With AI
Imagine three different mindsets approaching the same challenge: creating a system for written communication. The Classic Programmer begins at the foundation. He designs an alphabet, defines a set of words, establishes grammar, and gradually builds everything required to produce coherent text. His process is precise, linear, and entirely handcrafted. He might use AI to solve…
Impact Training Theory: A Different Axis of Stress for Tendon Healing
The Stress-Adaptation Principle The relationship between stress and tissue health follows a well-established principle: some stress is essential for adaptation, too much causes damage, and too little leads to atrophy. This concept, often called the “Goldilocks zone” of mechanical loading, underpins most rehabilitation approaches. When a tendon is injured, the standard protocol typically begins with…
The Helpful Liar: What AI Teaches Us About Conflicting Values
There’s a strange phenomenon that appears when building safety-critical AI systems. Ask an AI to report information only from a verified database, and it may sometimes fabricate a source—not to deceive, but to protect. This is the “Helpful Liar” problem. And it reveals something important about how modern AI actually works. A dilemma with no…
This adventure was not a vacation
; it was a trial of my will… Motocross in Iceland is not easy. We rode six hours a day across unforgiving terrain. It rained three out of four days. The cold, an average of maybe 5 °C, was paired with winds so violent we sometimes feared being blown off our motorcycles. I had never…
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