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Something happens the moment someone shares their screen to walk through a presentation. Their face disappears. The other participants turn into an audience. The content plays out in a straight line instead of being worked through together. From that poin

When you see a text a second or third time you recognise it, and that feeling of recognition is easily mistaken for actual understanding. This is the fluency illusion : the ease of processing something gets read as a measure of how well you know it. Rerea

You're on holiday and something breaks at work. You drive back, you fix it, everyone applauds. And you feel it too: you were needed, and it worked. That applause is where it goes wrong. Praise is a signal: it tells the whole organisation what actually get

Does your AI work for you or is it the other way around? Whenever you're pasting the output the AI gives you into another application, you're just acting as a meat proxy (the next Times Word of the Year?).

Your body has a natural chronotype: a morning type, an evening type, or something in between, driven by the circadian rhythms of cortisol and testosterone. It determines when in the day you perform best, physically and mentally, and the gap between a clea

The Weasel Words of Modern Productivity TheatreBeware the …

You finish the day with thirty things still on your list. You ask your AI assistant to prepare a summary of the week's meetings to send to the team. You give it five minutes, trust the output, and hit send. The next day, three replies. None positive. What

Living in Catalonia as a Dutchman means I navigate four languages daily: Dutch, Catalan, Spanish, and English. When it comes to my devices, though, I have a clear preference: Dutch. That's the language in which I think most deeply, and I want my interface

Niklas Luhmann, the prolific sociologist behind the Zettelkasten method, often described his note-taking practice as having a conversation with his system. He would write a note, and the system would "respond" by surfacing related ideas, unexpected connec

SleepWhat is the cheapest form of torture? Exactly.oSleep …