Writing
Essays and notes about technology, information, cognition, time, and the changing relationship between humans and machines.
Information is easy to collect and increasingly easy to retrieve. Knowledge asks for something more: context, interpretation, memory, and the ability to understand why something matters.
This essay explores the distance between finding an answer and building an understanding.
Time has not accelerated, but the rate of change around us has. When familiar tools become obsolete in months rather than years, memory begins to divide the present into smaller and smaller eras.
As tools become more capable, the durable skills may be judgment, context, taste, communication, and the ability to learn across changing systems.