Author: Charlie Gedeon
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23 things I learned in 2023 about how we communicate
Talking is exciting, infuriating, and wonderfully human. As an extrovert and a teacher, I think a lot about communication and how we can make it more enjoyable, intentional, and effective. Here’s a list of 23 observations I made during the tens of thousands of conversations I had in 2023. They have been curated down from…
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Intellectual Nutrition Labels for Generative AI Products
If a generative AI had a nutrition label that said “100 brain calories per ChatGPT response”, would that change how you use it? Nutrition could serve as a metaphor to understand why taking a tempered approach with generative AI might be important for our intellectual health. For starters, not all calories are created equal. 100…
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How we learn is changing. Why am I worried?
I’m deeply worried about the future of learning, but I can’t put my finger on why. For a while it was because of all the noise coming from the media and technology. It divided the population and created a sea of information that’s difficult to validate. Later, I started to become concerned with all the…
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Simplicity's Double-Edged Sword in the Information Age
We’re obsessed with simplicity. It’s alluring and inflammatory all at once. We want to simplify everything, and we want to draw the line on when something is too simple. “Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Though there is no confirmed source, the quote is often attributed to Albert Einstein. It’s about…
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Embracing the AI Mindshift: From Google to ChatGPT
📰 This post originally appeared on the Pragmatics Studio blog. Whether we like it or not, thinking will happen through AI, as it happens today through Google. We will ask language models how to deal with a broken heart the way we started doing that with the search giant. Generate recipes. Deal with grief. Diagnose…