Reading & Knowledge6 min
Make It Stick: An Evidence-Led Book Analysis
Test Make It Stick’s argument for effortful learning against later retention, transfer, expertise, motivation, accessibility, and the limits of memory research.
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Reading & Knowledge5 min
The Extended Mind Revisited: What Actually Belongs Outside the Brain?
Test the extended-mind thesis against cognitive offloading, fragile platforms, contested ownership, and the difference between useful support and constitutive cognition.
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Thinking & Decisions5 min
The Constitution of Knowledge: Can Institutions Outperform Individual Intelligence?
Test Jonathan Rauch’s institutional account of truth against reproducibility, exclusion, concentrated power, platform incentives, and AI-mediated disagreement.
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Work & Career5 min
Range: When Generalists Win—and When They Do Not
Test David Epstein’s case for sampling and breadth against deliberate-practice research, kind and wicked learning environments, selection effects, and career constraints.
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Thinking & Decisions5 min
The Scout Mindset: Is Better Reasoning a Skill, a Culture, or Both?
Test Julia Galef’s truth-seeking ideal against motivated reasoning, incentives, identity, power, debiasing transfer, and the institutional conditions for honest updating.
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Thinking & Decisions5 min
Thinking in Systems: Where the Framework Clarifies—and Where It Hides Power
Test Donella Meadows’s systems framework against contested boundaries, institutional power, strategic actors, unequal harms, and the politics of intervention.
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Thinking & Decisions5 min
The Beginning of Infinity: Are Better Explanations the Engine of Progress?
Test David Deutsch’s optimism about explanatory knowledge against social institutions, measurement, tacit skill, power, implementation, and irreversible harm.
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Thinking & Decisions5 min
Seeing Like a State in the AI Era: Why Legibility Creates Blindness
Use James C. Scott’s critique of high-modernist planning to examine AI classification, metrics, local knowledge, administrative scale, and coercive simplification.
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Learning Science5 min
The Tacit Dimension in the AI Era: What Cannot Be Reduced to Instructions?
Test Michael Polanyi’s account of tacit knowing against codification, deliberate practice, expert intuition, AI imitation, apprenticeship, and organizational memory.
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Thinking & Decisions5 min
Sources of Power: What Expert Intuition Knows—and When It Fails
Test Gary Klein’s recognition-primed decision model against low-validity environments, feedback quality, automation, overconfidence, and the need for analysis.
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Work & Career5 min
The Knowing-Doing Gap: Why Insight Rarely Changes Practice
Test Pfeffer and Sutton’s organizational diagnosis against capability gaps, implementation science, incentives, psychological safety, feedback, and local uncertainty.
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Learning Science5 min
The WEIRDest People in the World: How Universal Is the “Universal” Learner?
Test Joseph Henrich’s cultural-evolution account against sampling limits, within-society variation, historical causal inference, power, and universal learning claims.
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Thinking & Decisions5 min
Development as Freedom: Why Capability Matters More Than Output
Test Amartya Sen’s capability approach against GDP, preference, measurement, paternalism, inequality, conversion factors, and the difference between resources and freedom.
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AI Skills5 min
The Alignment Problem: Whose Values Enter the System?
Test Brian Christian’s account of machine-learning alignment against contested objectives, data politics, abstraction, plural values, institutional power, and recourse.
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AI Skills5 min
The Coming Wave: Is Containment a Strategy or a Metaphor?
Test Mustafa Suleyman’s containment proposal against proliferation, concentration, dual use, state capacity, democratic legitimacy, surveillance, and adaptive governance.
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AI Skills5 min
Co-Intelligence: Does Working With AI Make Us More Capable?
Test Ethan Mollick’s practical case for AI collaboration against the jagged frontier, automation bias, skill transfer, homogenization, workflow adoption, and accountability.
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Thinking & Decisions5 min
Nexus: Do Information Networks Produce Truth—or Merely Coordination?
Test Yuval Noah Harari’s history of information networks against information theory, institutional epistemology, propaganda, bureaucracy, power, and AI-generated scale.
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AI Skills6 min
The Worlds I See: What a Human-Centered History of AI Makes Visible
Test Fei-Fei Li’s human-centered history of computer vision against the labor, labels, institutions, exclusions, and power that make machine seeing possible.
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AI Skills5 min
The Technological Republic: Can Public Purpose Guide Technical Power?
Test Alexander Karp and Nicholas Zamiska’s case for public-purpose technology against democratic authorization, procurement, rights, accountability, and conflicts of interest.
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Work & Career6 min
The Burnout Society in the AI Era: Does Acceleration Produce Freedom or Exhaustion?
Test Byung-Chul Han’s self-exploitation thesis against occupational burnout evidence, AI acceleration, job resources, autonomy, and work design.
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