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Thoughts on education, design, and AI, specifically what happens when they collide in ways no one planned for. I write about the bits of learning that get lost in the efficiency drive: delight, curiosity, productive confusion. What education could be if we stopped optimizing it to death. What creativity looks like when generation is infinite. Why the hardest problems are rarely technical.
Writing is thinking, and I'll keep doing it. Ideas still forming, questions without tidy answers. This is where I work things out.
Beat the AI Slop: New Creative Literacy for Working Artists
AI is churning out slick, soulless work that looks like yours (and mine), and it's already boring everyone to tears. Here's how to build the creative literacy that actually matters.
Against Slickness: A Framework for AI Literacy in Design Education
AI tools produce polished outputs that look professional but often lack substance, and design education is at risk of mistaking shine for skill. Here's a framework for teaching students to see past the gloss.
The Hidden Curriculum of AI: Obedience, Not Curiosity
AI tools are training students to be obedient little prompt-writers instead of curious thinkers, and education's obsession with tidy answers is making it worse. Here's how to teach students to make a proper mess of things again.
Why Education Needs More Delight
Education has become so fixated on outcomes and efficiency. A case for bringing delight back into the classroom before we bore an entire generation to death.