Writing
A1, A2, A3: A Framework for Better Decisions
A framework for distinguishing defaults, shortcuts, and purposeful choices, with attention to goals, tradeoffs, and real constraints.
Progress, Authority, and the Image of a Good Life
How inherited expectations, ideas of progress, postmodern criticism, and simulation shape what seems worth pursuing.
Usefulness as a Design Standard
Designing around complete tasks: clarity, accessibility, recovery, and the conditions under which assistance from LLMs earns its place.
LLMs and the Purpose of Education
What research on LLM-based tutoring can establish about learning, and what remains the work of teachers, families, and students.
Cars, Technology, and the Meaning of Progress
How engineering, ownership costs, brand reputation, and status shape the value of cars, and what those distinctions reveal about technology.
Education Angel Group: Participation and Support
The aims behind Education Angel Group and Runstr: student participation, continuing support, and clear boundaries around sharing.
Independent Judgment in the Age of LLMs
How to use LLMs and rely on expertise while retaining responsibility for the evidence, assumptions, and decisions behind an answer.
Survival, Adaptation, and the Room to Grow
Why lasting growth depends on survival and adaptation, and how experience, preparation, and support can reduce unnecessary struggle.