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The Most Valuable Skill in an AI World Is Thinking
The biggest risk of AI isn’t that it can make mistakes. It’s that it produces answers so fast, and packages them so convincingly, that we stop noticing when it does. Generating an answer, even to an extremely complex question, has become effortless. Consider a straightforward workplace analytics task: a business leader highlights a growing risk…
How to Think Empirically Part 5: Keep Track of What You Did and How it Went
“Combine the ingredients and cook in the black pot.” My mom was recently making a stew recipe passed down from her grandmother. This detail mattered enough for my great grandmother to include it in the directions. But 100 years later, without the “black pot”, we were left unsure about the best replacement to use or…
How to Think Empirically Part 4: Change One Thing at a Time
If you throw a handful of poo at a fan, some of it is going to stick. In the middle of my lesson, my saxophone teacher paused to share that analogy. He wanted me to know that when he shared anecdotes, advanced concepts, and creative ideas, he didn’t necessarily expect me to remember everything. The…
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