Skipping Bloom Is Dorian Gray in Academic Drag
At a recent leader conference, an instructor bragged that AI lets students “jump the first two bands of Bloom” and skip group dynamics to “get more done.” The room didn’t nod; it shifted. What’s marketed as efficiency is the quiet deletion of maintenance—the slow, social work that makes leadership possible.
What If AI’s Mistakes Aren’t Bugs, But Features?
We often say AI’s mistakes are "by design," but they’re really not. AI wasn’t built to fail in these specific ways—its errors emerge as a byproduct of how it learns.
But what if we actively use them as a tool instead of just tolerating AI’s weird mistakes or trying to eliminate them?
Here are some unexpected but potentially valuable use cases where treating AI mistakes as a form of bias—rather than just failure—could lead to new insights and innovations.
The Great Wave
Hokusai's story exemplifies many of the key themes im exploring in a current manuscript about the importance of subjective intelligence in the advent of ai: the importance of #persistence, the value of #lifelonglearning, and the deep #insights that can come from looking closely at one's craft over an extended period.
Profiles in Craft: Hannah Gadsby
Creativity (or, as Maslow says, “creativeness”) is a facet of self-actualization. It is not a process that results in something novel and useful. In contrast, Maslow observed that there is a correlation (in his experience) between psychological health and ordinary creativity.