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This is a continuation of my previous post, and will be discussing the second day targeted towards educators, "Learning in the age of AI." There were around 70 attendees, near double the previous day, of which it seemed roughly 40% K12 teachers, 30% administrators/curriculum creators and 20% college professors, with...

I've got some drafts in the oven as I continue my Halfhaven writing, but nothing that's ready to go out the door today, so I thought I'd follow the example of some of my compatriots and make a list. I expect some of these to be fairly idiosyncratic so consider...

Tim Kreider's "I Know What You Think of Me" NYT op-ed has somehow been a small yet distinct piece of me ever since I came across it on social media some time during high school. Through the haze of memory I find myself seeing some cute picture saying "to be...

Epistemic Status: Hastily-written, but I think it's good to consider the various ways non-obvious ways one can save. Obviously everyone has their own situations when it comes to money. I think most people spend much more money than they should. Whether they've been successfully influenced by the constant stream of...

This past week, I attended the AI Innovation Summit in Moorhead, Minnesota, which was an event put on by MSUM's newly founded Institute of Applied AI. The summit existed as a way to introduce and integrate MSUM's new institute with the surrounding community, as training for people interested in using...

How close have you come to death? I don't mean in some "well, if I were born in different circumstances" way. I don't even mean a close call like missing a flight that later crashed. There's something special that happens when you intimately feel the possibility of your existence ending....

Epistemic Status: A fun heuristic. Advice is directional. We all are constantly making decisions about how to spend our time and resources, and I think making these decisions well is one of the most important meta-skills one can possibly have. Time spent valuably can quickly add up into new abilities...