Others have said it before me, but here's my version: Manifesto of an AI refusnik cmtl.me/manifesto-of...
"The hype ignores a long list of significant harms – harms to our accurate understanding of each other, harms to people’s intellectual growth, harms to our economy, harms to our planet."
“Spending half an hour reading something interesting, moving, awe-inspiring or merely amusing might be worth doing, not just to improve who you become in the future – though it might do that too – but for the sake of that very half hour of being alive.” ~ Oliver Burkeman, Meditations for Mortals
Important read.
It's Sun Day! In more ways than one... my latest blog post explains... cmtl.me/sun-worshipi...
Important read. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I look forward to these lectures... will you be posting the readings for those following along outside of Yale?
It was reinvigorating to talk about Learning Environments by Design with @lnddave.bsky.social now 10 years after my book came out. While much has changed, key ideas remain relevant to today's designers (IMHO). Enjoy this podcast. Thanks for the conversation, David!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=33dw...
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
Applause to this from Audrey Watters: “Education is a practice of caring for one another – who we were and who we can become. Education is a relationship among people… Love the world enough, love yourself enough to fight for a human future.”
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/bird-of-pray...
@rhappe.bsky.social I follow you, and so I believe you will appreciate this post. Have a great day! rojospinks.substack.com/p/a-singular...
Timeline cleanse... wait for it.
Self-Restraint As a Learning Outcome: Yes, We Can, But Should We? (What Matters More Than AI)
blog.mahabali.me/pedagogy/cri...
a bearing witness.
"To turn this sword into a plowshare requires a much greater shift... AI – this idea bound up in military intelligence – shifts us in the opposite direction, towards an automated thoughtlessness, algorithmic indignity, into a future run by those with no humility & no remorse"
AI is NOT helping education. No one analyzes it better from an expert perspective than Audrey Watters.
What she said!: “What makes me angry is a society that has so few values, such an attenuated sense of human worth and flourishing, that it jumps to sell off the brains and potential of its young people for — what? A technological fad?”
irinadumitrescu.substack.com/p/what-makes...
LLMs don't read. Automated text generation is not the same thing as writing. Tech advancing is not the same thing as societal progress. These are the themes of More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. It might help you think more too. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-...
Seriously, the rational thing to do with LLMs would have been "that's cool, come back when you have a real application for this that justifies the cost and you've made it more energy efficient." We don't have to dump billions into every new computer knickknack! We can have higher standards!!
It’s totally fine to say, “hey I don’t accept the convenience costs of AI’s economic and ecological disruptions and I value the inefficiency of human creativity so we will pass on collaborations that accept that trade off!”
Take a listen to my conversation with Michelle Ockers about leader development strategies... learninguncut.global/podcast/elev...
The world still turns and learning strategies evolve. Karl Kapp proposes "action-first learning" in his latest book, publishing next week. My review: l4lp.com/action-first/
#writingcommunity #authorsky #writesky #author #amwriting
Beautiful...
Tressie McMillan Cottom calling out the AI hype. Glad to see I’m not the only one who doubts. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
"Trust the learners" - an important lesson from this terrific example of a personalized leader development program at U.S. Bank. Innovative and impactful. On the latest Learning Uncut podcast with @michelleockers.bsky.social.
learninguncut.global/podcast/165/
Graphic of the top of the US Constitution, with "We the people" prominent.
What is government for? "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone." From my personal blog: cmtl.me/we-the-people/
Highly recommended. Sharp analysis of AI and its hype. One of the few newsletters to which I am a paid subscriber.
The Sirens’ Call by @chrislhayes.bsky.social makes you think about what you want your life to be... it has prompted me to start my morning with a specific question: What do I need to attend to today? More here: l4lp.com/attention/
“If you’re so rich, why aren’t you smart?” — on venture capital and education technology 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/nobodys-busi...
