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 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 | Jul 23, 2025 | Academia, AI Futures, AI Mindset
TL;DR: As AI takes over mental labour, will we need “intellectual gyms” to keep our minds sharp? Universities could become the new spaces for deliberate cognitive challenge. For millennia, survival depended on physical strength. Our ancestors ploughed fields,...
