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The Scarce Thing
The Scarce Thing

A machine can now ingest an absurd amount of scientific literature and treat it like working memory. It can surface connections no human would spot simply because no human can hold that much context in their head at once.

That is extraordinary.

But the machine does not know which connections matter. It finds all of them: the significant ones and the trivial ones, the ones that unlock new treatments and the ones that are statistical lint.

The human who can tell the difference becomes more valuable, not less.

The machine solves. The human selects.

Selection is harder than solving. That is the thing nobody wants to say.

·hybridhorizons.substack.com·
The Scarce Thing
5 Ways AI Changed Work in 2025
5 Ways AI Changed Work in 2025
In 2025, AI joined the workplace where it was the superstar employee, the confidante, and the scapegoat all at once.
·fastcompany.com·
5 Ways AI Changed Work in 2025
On Facing Extinction (Again)
On Facing Extinction (Again)
This week I was cleaning up my old work laptop before I return it (oh yeah, I quit AWS 🎉), and I...
·dev.to·
On Facing Extinction (Again)
‎The Clickbait Audit
‎The Clickbait Audit
Commentary on ‎The Clickbait Audit by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more
·downes.ca·
‎The Clickbait Audit
The Man Who Can't Be Moved
The Man Who Can't Be Moved
Yann LeCun and the art of standing still in a field obsessed with acceleration.
·saanyaojha.substack.com·
The Man Who Can't Be Moved
Nadella's message to Microsoft execs: Get on board with the AI grind or get out
Nadella's message to Microsoft execs: Get on board with the AI grind or get out

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has ordered a radical AI transformation, telling leaders to rethink every part of the business. Internal documents and interviews show he is consolidating power around AI teams, speeding product cycles, and demanding leaner execution. He promoted longtime sales chief Judson Althoff to run the commercial business so he can focus on technical work, and launched a weekly AI accelerator meeting where frontline engineers—not executives—present. Nadella also opened exclusive Teams channels for senior leaders, directing them to act like individual contributors and learn from early-career talent. The shake-up is pressuring veterans such as Rajesh Jha and Charlie Bell to consider retirement, signaling possible turnover at the top. Insiders say the new structure gives Nadella “extra bandwidth” to lead what he calls a “tectonic AI platform shift,” a moment he ranks alongside Microsoft’s move to cloud.

·businessinsider.com·
Nadella's message to Microsoft execs: Get on board with the AI grind or get out
AI will make our children stupid | David James and Carl Hendrick | The Critic Magazine
AI will make our children stupid | David James and Carl Hendrick | The Critic Magazine
Of all the recent signs that Western civilization is circling the drain, the most depressing is the apparent decline in IQs. The so-called Flynn Effect once showed IQs rising steadily.
The threat that AI poses to intelligence is existential: it allows children to outsource their thinking entirely
·thecritic.co.uk·
AI will make our children stupid | David James and Carl Hendrick | The Critic Magazine
6 Scary Predictions for AI in 2026
6 Scary Predictions for AI in 2026
Could the AI industry be on the verge of its first major layoffs? Will China spread propaganda to slow the US data-center building boom? Where are AI agents headed?
·wired.com·
6 Scary Predictions for AI in 2026