Using large language models for reflective thinking and metacognition, rather than generating facts or final outputs

Large Language Models as Epistemic Rubber Ducks

Large Language Models as Failed Oracles

On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens

Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project

Illustrated notes on the concept of 'Evergreen notes' and how to write them

Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web

A new role at an AI research lab working on tools for open-ended reasoning

What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move

Daily notes as a frictionless default input for personal knowledge management systems

Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows