Assorted links from week4 to 13, 2025

👧👦 My other half -Mathilde- is launching her own project: a podcast + newsletter exploring the intersection of ‘parenthood x education x AI’ — I can’t reco. enough, it’s called: NewKid and here's the announcement: I am launching 'NewKid'.

Talking about education: Let's only teach what's worth knowing. And what if we have it all backwards?

Should this 👇 be the new education? The Age of Agency.

From childhood education to spirituality to interpersonal relationships, it’s critical that we learn how to instill and cultivate agency at every level. The systems we build and the choices we make today will determine whether technology serves to enhance our humanity or diminish it.

Talking about AI:

And its impact on current generations: GenZ and the end of predictable progress.

Written in 1996: The Coming Age of Calm Technology.

The important waves of technological change are those that fundamentally alter the place of technology in our lives. What matters is not technology itself, but its relationship to us.

Seek friction: Cultural Singularity and the need for friction.

Might be among the best pieces of advice I’ve read re: writing and publishing: Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog.

If you had to read only one tech-related newsletter, make it Crazy Stupid Tech:

This is a story about three dates: 1994, 2007, and 2022. And then three more dates: 1996, 2009 and 2025.

About owning the future: The Aesthetic is the art now.

Take an Internet walk —by poets Spencer and Kristoffer 🌻

This moved me: