Thinking
On AI, cognition, and the creative value of directed attention.
One Thing Stated as Fact
The power of understatement in a world that screams for attention. The discipline of leaving things out.
5 min readThe Space Between
The gaps matter more than the content. A defence of emptiness.
5 min readAgainst Mood Boards
References anchor you in what already exists. Real creative work starts where there are no references.
6 min readCognition, Not Production
In AI-mediated creation, your ability to articulate is your ability to create.
5 min readThe Photographer Who Stopped Shooting
The camera was always just the apparatus. The real work was the attention you gave the subject before you ever picked it up.
5 min readOn Simulation
When you can generate worlds that do not exist, what does that tell us about the ones that do?
5 min readSignal and Noise
Volume is noise. One considered output over ten adequate ones.
5 min readThe Body Is No Longer in the Loop
For a century, creative work was motor. AI moved it from the nervous system to cognition.
5 min readDirected Attention
Stillness is not the absence of work. It is the highest bandwidth state of directed attention.
5 min readThe Medium Is Not the Shortcut
AI is not a faster way to do old work. It is a different kind of work entirely.
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