Noah Brier•
The Cognitive Offloading Edition
MIT Media Lab researchers find that using ChatGPT reduces critical evaluation and weakens neural connectivity, a phenomenon they term “cognitive offloading.”...
Writing
We like to write. We believe writing is a powerful tool for thought and it's much harder to fake your way through paragraphs than it is through a conversation.
Charles Gallant•
Thinking Ahead, Building Ahead
Why the best AI products ship before they're ready—and why that's exactly right. In the AI era, speed and iteration beat waiting for perfection.
Noah Brier•
The Alephic AI Thesis: 2025
The AI revolution will be dictated by three physical constraints—compute packaging capacity, energy availability, and organizational agility—that concentrate...
Noah Brier•
The Anatomy of a CEO AI Mandate
As AI becomes the default starting point for every task, CEOs from IBM to Shopify are issuing mandates that range from theatrical pronouncements to...
Noah Brier•
Documentation as a Strategic Asset
Documentation turns tacit knowledge into a strategic asset that scales communication, preserves institutional memory, and becomes the training data powering...
Noah Brier•
On Bureaucracy
This post examines how growing organizations can devolve into bureaucratic labyrinths that stifle innovation, drawing on insights from Olson’s theory to...