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"Discover where you stand across human, artificial, collective, and embodied intelligence."
4 Intelligences Assessment
"A deeper diagnostic for parents and educators, 24 questions measuring Rational, Embodied,"
4 Intelligences Diagnostic
"What cognitive fitness means in the AI age, and the habits that keep your thinking sharp."
Cognitive Fitness
"The growing distance between what AI can do and what most people know how to ask of it."
The Gap
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The Human Edge
A strategic guide to what only you can bring to work in the age of AI agents. Five scenarios, an honest inventory, the apprenticeship problem, and what to do this quarter.
Read the guideWorking With Agents
A field guide for professionals who direct AI, not just use it. The three layers of directing agents, workflow design, common mistakes, and a week-one protocol.
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The Jevons Paradox: Why Efficiency Makes Us Use More, Not Less
A 19th-century economic law that explains why AI is creating more developer jobs, not fewer. Understanding it changes how you think about technology, work, and your own career.
Read6 Things Resilient Professionals Do When AI Disrupts Their Role
A short, practical checklist for anyone whose role is shifting under AI. Six habits, adapted from a bestselling mental strength framework, for staying grounded instead of reactive.
Read14 Questions to Ask Instead of "How Was School Today?"
Seven questions for parents and seven for educators, built to surface how kids are actually thinking with AI, not just what they did with it.
ReadStop Asking "How Was School Today?": Four Questions That Build Four Intelligences
A flat question gets a flat answer. Replace "how was school" with four rotating questions, one per intelligence your child needs to develop in the AI age.
ReadBuilding an AI Framework for Your School, Not Just a Policy
A one-pager for school boards, leadership teams, and teacher development coordinators: who this work is for, and the four areas it actually changes.
ReadManaging Disruptions, the newsletter
Weekly essays on critical thinking, conscious learning, and asking better questions in the AI age.