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Hello! I'm Linus, an academic researching cognition, behaviour and technologies in design. I am currently writing about AI in Design, academia, and life.
Recent posts on Artificial Intelligence
Learning With AI Feels Different
What if the real disruption of AI in education isn’t how students use it, but how much it reveals about how we all used to learn?
Why Designers Should Try to Break AI Models
Even a small, off-topic phrase can change how an AI model behaves. When designers explore these moments intentionally, they can discover new ways to experiment, reflect, and collaborate with the system.
Curiosity Drift: A Polymath’s Path in the AI Era
Specialisation once killed the polymath. But AI is reopening the cracks, rewarding curiosity that drifts across fields. Here’s why embracing your inner shapeshifter may be the real career edge.
The Quiet Politics of Using AI in Universities
AI is becoming essential to academic work but many of us are keeping it off the record. Why thoughtful AI use is going quiet, and what it’s costing us.
Recent posts on academia
Learning With AI Feels Different
What if the real disruption of AI in education isn’t how students use it, but how much it reveals about how we all used to learn?
When the Scholar Becomes Invisible
Many enter academia hoping to be scholars, only to become academics. What happens when the work that matters most is also the least rewarded?
Will universities become the mental gyms of the future?
We built gyms when machines made labour optional. Now that AI makes thinking somewhat optional, will we need mental fitness spaces to stay sharp? Perhaps this is where universities might lead the charge.
Teaching in the age of dopamine
When students’ real lives happen online, lectures feel like an intermission. Here’s why old methods fail and what higher education can do to stay relevant.
Recent posts on life
Buying Back My Mind
What if real privilege today isn’t wealth or status but the ability to think clearly? This post explores why we’re paying more to reclaim our attention and how life, not work, should get our best hours.
What if we want less on purpose?
What if the reason you’re not chasing anything right now is because you’re finally paying attention? This reflection explores how slowing down desire might be the most honest thing we can do in an uncertain world.
We Made Boredom Extinct and Lost Something Vital
What happens to a generation that never learns to wait, imagine, or reflect? In an age that fears boredom, silence feels like failure. But what if it’s the very thing we need most?
The present tense of AI
The pace of AI innovation is relentless, but does keeping up actually make us better creators? This post explores why stepping out of the AI hype cycle might be the smartest move for your creative practice.