Speed over Depth Searching for something to write about today I came across my notes on Normal Sucks which highlighted that school values how fast you can retrieve information over the depth of understanding of that information1. Revisionist History covered the same idea when it looked at the LSAT exam valuing speed over deep thinking in the field of law. Relating to today, this seems to be what the promise of AI tooling brings to the table. You'll be able to get more done faster which also ties into the ideas from this month's book club book that we never subtract we always add things to our plate. This doing more stuff doesn't mean we do the same amount faster and then call it a day. Instead we do more. We increase our workload so that we're constantly in overload mode. Worse, we may not even understand what the tooling is doing for us. We ask for an explanation, but that barely scratches the surface of our tasks. Sure, the former hard-won struggle took days, maybe weeks to win our…
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