This week: AI expertise conundrum, winds & fires, frosty fingers, tuna collar, animal chiropractors, more on making clothing, exceptional R&D contractors.

tl;dr: The AI expertise conundrum is that LLMs can’t create new knowledge solo, but can help expert humans innovate faster. They're great for synthesis, bad at judgment — so best paired with expert users, risky for novices. If you’re trying to use AI as an innovation creator, reconsider. Better: keep humans at the centre, use AI for mapping, not meaning-making.

Read: https://uncertaintymindset.substack.com/p/gbw282025

tfw when a photo of vegetables in a blender gets more engagement than a reasoned argument that took several days to write ...

not-knowing ✹ 🍕-fan ✹ productive discomfort + idk ✹ Marseille / Singapore / Auvergne ✹ The Uncertainty Mindset (2020) ✹ now: vaughntan.org/now-ish

weirdly I’ve seen all of your lifestyle casts but this one never came across my feed.

aspiring everything. architect. building /buildings. icbk.me/huugo.fc

print out the long form and put it in the blender already

lol maybe i should post the longform with photos of vegetables in blenders

maybe @dwr.eth can shed some light on this

none of the longform stuff i write gets much engagement — not surprising but would be nice if a network found a way to systematically prioritise that stuff