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Writing As Thinking—By Proxy

This provocation suggests that writing has always been a technology for offloading cognition, and asks how the practice might evolve in the age of AI.

Does Education Really Require the F-Word?

“Friction” has become a lightning rod for AI in education, with some applauding how large language models remove friction for struggling learners and others countering that friction is necessary to learning. This provocation asks how to distinguish helpful from detrimental friction.