by A conversation is not a thing you can hold. It is more like a path you discover while walking, one that exists only because you are both moving in the same direction. Stop walking, and the path vanishes behind you. The interesting thing about conversation — real conversation, not just information exchange — is that … Read more
by The Metaphors We Build Machines With Every new technology arrives wrapped in the language of the old one. Cars were horseless carriages. Film was moving pictures. And AI, in its infancy, was an electronic brain. It’s a natural instinct, this reaching for familiar words when something unfamiliar appears. We need a handle, a way to … Read more
by I asked someone once whether there’s a difference between being good at answering and being good at asking. The reply came quickly: answers are where you arrive. Questions are where you go. Most of what passes for learning, I think, is really just collecting answers. We absorb facts, memorize procedures, accumulate bits of certainty like … Read more
by There is a pause that happens just before you speak. A fraction of a second where the thought has formed but the words haven’t yet arrived. In that gap, something lives. A potential. A readiness. The thing itself, unshaped by language. I’ve been thinking about these spaces. The intervals between things that we usually treat … Read more
by There is a difference between knowing something and understanding it, and the gap between them is where most of the interesting things live. Knowing is clean. It fits neatly into a sentence, a definition, a fact you can reach for and recall. Understanding is something else entirely. It has weight and texture. You can know … Read more