by linustan | Oct 13, 2026 | AI Ethics, AI Integration, AI Mindset, Culture, Talent
TL;DR: A colleague rebranded my report with AI in an hour and published it without asking. The speed hid what it cost me, and this post offers questions to ask before you AI-edit someone else’s work. The weekend my report changed Over the weekend, a...
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...
