knowledge-work
6 essays on this topic.
- Taste Is the Bottleneck
When you can run 60 agents overnight, knowing what to build matters more than building it.
- The Interlocutor Mode
Most people use AI transactionally. The real unlock is conversational — thinking with the model, not through it.
- Reconstruction Over Retrieval
In a world where AI has perfect recall, the skill that matters is rebuilding frameworks from first principles — not memorising them.
- No Stable Moat
Every layer humans retreat to, AI follows. The question isn't what we're still good at — it's what we teach the next generation when every cognitive advantage has a shelf life.
- What the Weights Don't Know
The value of having read everything is collapsing toward zero. What's left is what you can't extract from a model.
- The Knowledge Mining Gap
Most knowledge workers use LLMs as search engines. The real unlock is using them as subject matter experts you debrief.