≈≈ How to Have Your C “AI” K 🍰 and Eat It Too ≈≈ ∞ Teaching Kids to Think in an AI World ∞ “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” Dan Millman. Back in December, just before the holidays, we posted a couple of blogs about AI and children’s development, specifically the risks presented by AI toys. We talked about privacy, safety, and the slightly unsettling possibility that a stuffed animal might start offering life advice before the child has even learned to say “Mama.” This time I’d like to talk about the other side of the coin: the benefits of AI, the reality of it, and, most importantly, the management of it. Today’s kids will grow up in a world where AI is as ubiquitous as a key fob. So instead of asking whether children should use it, the better question might be how. AI is an extraordinary learning tool. It can explain complicated subjects, help kids explore ideas, and break down informati...
Storms, Generators, and the Mystery of Why We Make Using Better Things Complicated. Up front, some transparency. This blog supports technology that a company we’re affiliated with uses as part of its product. If you buy their product through the links here, we may get a commission. This disclosure is at the end too, but we figured starting with it was the grown-up thing to do. But honestly, this isn’t really about selling anything. It’s about a technology that solves an obvious problem and, for reasons that remain slightly baffling, isn’t encouraged as logic would expect. A week or so we enjoyed a spectacular blizzard. If you had nowhere to go, and I mean absolutely nowhere, it was beautiful. Peaceful. Snow falling quietly, trees wrapped in white, woods looking like a postcard, fire going in the hearth…basically a scene straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting. (I can’t believe I wrote that sentence, I’m not entirely sure what came over me, I apologize.) Before the storm,...