I've spent 3 years teaching AI to companies. But what I really think about is how we learn, grow, and bet on ourselves when everything keeps changing. AI, cognition, Japanese craft, investing : I think they're all the same question. Thinking out loud here. Follow along.

The algorithm now understands language. It still optimizes for emotion. Fear, outrage, tribal rage. They outperform curiosity every single time. Smarter model. Same human brain.

China just became the first country to ban companies from firing workers due to AI. US tech is cutting 882 jobs a day for the same reason. Same technology. Two opposite answers to the same question. The people I see thriving aren't waiting for governments to agree. They're learning the tools that made their role smaller and building something with them instead. Policy follows reality. Rarely the other way around.

Most people use AI to remove friction. All friction. But there are two kinds. Vicious friction is the busywork. Formatting, status updates, copy-pasted spreadsheets. It teaches you nothing. Let the model take it. Virtuous friction is the part where you don't have the answer yet. The 20 minutes of being stuck. The bad first draft. The reasoning you have to do yourself before the prompt even makes sense. One drains your day. The other builds you. When you outsource both, you don't gain time. You lose the version of yourself the friction would have made. Eagleman calls it vicious vs virtuous friction. Here's how I understand it. Tell me where I'm wrong.

Token spend tells you someone opened the tool. It doesn't tell you if they accepted the first mediocre output and shipped it to the client.I train people on AI tools every week. The prompting part clicks fast. What takes longer: looking at what the AI produced and deciding it's not good enough to send.Most skip that step. The output exists, so it ships.Teaching prompts is two hours. Teaching taste is the rest.

You know that feeling when you read a post and it just smells off? Like nothing's wrong with the words, but something is. That feeling has a name. Eagleman calls it the effort phenomenon: we instinctively assign value to things that look like they cost the writer something. A handmade letter. A reply someone clearly sat with. A piece of writing you can tell took its author somewhere new. The brain has been doing this for 200,000 years. Long before AI. So when a post feels "slop," people aren't reading the words. They're sensing the absence of cost. Of struggle. Of someone actually being there. Writing in public after AI means the bar isn't "is this true?" or "is this clever?" It's "did this cost me anything?" If it didn't, no algorithm will save it. @davideagleman calls it the effort phenomenon. Here's how I understand it. Tell me where I'm wrong.

A study just tested what happens when students use ChatGPT to study. 45 days later, they remembered less than those who studied the hard way. 57.5% vs 68.5%. Not even close. I'm not surprised. I see this every week training teams on AI. The people who copy-paste ChatGPT's answers feel productive in the moment. They nod along. They check boxes. They leave the room thinking they learned something. They didn't. The ones who actually retain? They argue with the AI. They ask "why?" three times. They get frustrated. They slow down. The researchers call it "cognitive offloading": your brain stops encoding when it knows something else is doing the work for you. I call it the fluency illusion: consumption feels like competence. Until it doesn't. AI doesn't make you dumber. But using it as a shortcut instead of a sparring partner does.

Most people think they learned something when they understood it. But understanding ≠ learning. Cognitive science calls this the fluency illusion — information that feels easy to process feels like knowledge. It isn't. I see this every week. People leave an AI training session feeling sharp. They followed along, they got it. Two weeks later, they can't reproduce a single thing. They didn't learn. They spectated. AI makes this worse. You read the output, it makes sense, you move on. You never struggled, so your brain never encoded anything. Consumption has never felt more like competence. The uncomfortable truth: the things that feel inefficient — testing yourself, rebuilding from scratch, explaining without notes — are the only things that actually work. Here's how I understand it. Tell me where I'm wrong.

"AI isn't replacing your job. It's replacing the tasks you mistake for your job." Jensen Huang made the sharpest distinction I've heard: the job is patient care. The task is reading a scan. The job is strategy. The task is building a spreadsheet. Most people protect their tasks. The ones who grow protect their judgment.

AI isn't replacing your tasks. It's replacing your habits of thought. We measure the first because it's visible. We ignore the second because it's not. That's the real transformation and almost nobody is talking about it.

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🚨 FLASH - Microsoft, NVIDIA et Apple pèsent désormais aussi lourd que le marché chinois 🥊 Vous avez bien lu, ces 3 entreprises ont la même capitalisation combinée que l'ensemble du marché côté chinois, une première dans l'histoire. Giga bulle ou résultat logique ? 🤔

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