The essay used to mean something. Not just the final product — the polished paragraphs, the properly formatted citations — but everything it represented: the research, the synthesis, the structured thinking, the hours of wrestling an idea into shape. For decades, we assessed the artifact because we trusted it reflected...
I both love and hate a Saturday with nothing planned. There is something genuinely appealing about waking up with a clear schedule and the feeling that I can do whatever I want. But what actually happens on those days is rarely what I imagined. I don’t make meaningful progress on...
I came across a Twitter thread that gave me language for something I had been feeling but hadn’t been able to articulate. Andrej Karpathy—former AI lead at Tesla, co-founder of OpenAI, one of the most respected voices in machine learning—was describing how his coding workflow has changed. He’s now doing...