by linustan | Sep 20, 2025 | Academia, AI Futures, Behaviours, teaching, Teaching and learning, Tools
TL;DR: Learning with AI isn’t about shortcuts, but about cultivating awareness, challenging assumptions, and reframing what effort really looks like. How we used to learn There were acronyms I used to invent in school. They weren’t clever, but they helped ideas...
by linustan | Sep 13, 2025 | AI Ethics, Behaviours, Craft, Tools
TL;DR: AI tools often respond to irrelevant details in unpredictable ways. For designers, these quirks reveal how prompting works beneath the surface and why learning to break the AI model on purpose can build deeper creative confidence and control. The quiet...
by linustan | Sep 6, 2025 | Higher Education Landscape, Researcher
TL;DR: The modern university system rewards academic productivity over scholarly depth. The more time we devote to meaningful thinking, the more invisible we risk becoming. To preserve scholarship, we must find new ways, be it inside or outside the institution, to...
by linustan | Sep 1, 2025 | AI, AI Futures, AI Mindset, Culture
TL;DR: AI is revaluing polymathic curiosity. While academia and careers still push for specialisation, those who embrace curiosity drift and cultivate a shapeshifter mindset may thrive in the second renaissance. I’ve been thinking about Leonardo da Vinci. Not...
by linustan | Aug 25, 2025 | Focus, Recharge, Wellbeing
TL;DR: Work is consuming the time and energy we once reserved for deep thinking. In a world optimised for speed and stimulation, buying back uninterrupted time for reflection is becoming both rare and essential. Thinking shouldn’t be a luxury, but it is I’m...
