AI — Futures Garden

Something strange is happening to knowledge workers who use AI daily. They ship more than ever and feel worse than...

“I shipped more code last quarter than any quarter in my career. I also felt more drained than any quarter...

Scroll through LinkedIn on any given morning and you will find people proudly sharing their AI workflows: inbox summaries generated...

This is a Primer primer on AGI.

This article is part of my Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries. Previous Chapter: 4.1 Tools for the examination of future...

This article is part of my Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries. Previous Chapter: 4.2.1 AI and science fiction

Conclusion

This article is part of my Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries. Previous Chapter: 4.2.4 AI, future imaginaries, and futures studies...

I explored this concept in more detail in an issue of my newsletter Futures Lens: Cultural Lead: Why AI Is...

I did my master’s in futures research from 2017 to 2020 at the FU Berlin. In my master’s thesis, submitted...

Meaningmaking

Every day, we make dozens of subjective value judgments without noticing. We decide which email deserves a reply first, whether...

This article is part of my Master’s Thesis - Future Imaginaries. Previous Chapter: 3.4.4 Effect of performativity on future imaginaries...

Rationalists

This is a Primer primer on the Rationalist movement.

Scenario Planning

This is a Primer primer on Scenario Planning.

The AI Race

Everyone is talking about the AI Race. Policy speeches invoke it, newspaper headlines frame it, tech CEOs use it to...

In the space of two years, the discourse around AI and knowledge work has produced an entire family of concepts:...

Utopia

_This is a Primer primer on utopia. Related notes: Utopia as Method, Real Utopias_

A senior executive at a large company tells her teams to cut costs by 30% using AI. No guidance on...

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