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What the Calculator Wars Actually Teach Us
The calculator debate is the closest historical parallel to AI in education. Getting that history right matters for understanding what comes next.
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Why Most 'Pro' Products Are Designed for Nobody
Pro products are built for the person who approves the feature list, not the person who uses the tool. Why the label has drifted into a marketing category, who actually buys these things, and when the premium is genuinely worth paying.
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Why your wiki should probably be an MCP resource, not a tool
Exposing internal documentation over MCP as a search tool means the model guesses when to look. Exposing it as a resource means the human decides. That distinction changes what the integration is good for.
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The Teacher in the Age of AI
The teacher's role is changing, but not disappearing. AI makes some of what teachers do obsolete and amplifies the rest. Most schools have it backwards.
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MacBook Air vs MacBook Pro: Which One Are You Actually?
An honest 2026 MacBook Air vs MacBook Pro guide: why the fan is the real dividing line, what the Pro display, ports and battery actually buy you, and why most people are an Air with more RAM.
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Writing acceptance tests first, agents second
The most reliable way to use a coding agent isn't a better prompt. It's writing the acceptance test first, so the agent has a target it can't argue with and you have a stopping condition.
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How to Force-Restart Any Frozen Apple Device: Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Watch
The exact force-restart button sequence for iPhone, iPad, Apple Silicon Mac, and Apple Watch in 2026, plus when a force-restart is the wrong fix to reach for.
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AI Tools That Feel Smart but Make You Slower
Most AI productivity tools cost more time than they save, and the reason they don't feel that way is structural. How to time the real cycle, and the four conditions under which the tools genuinely help.
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Every Student Has an AI. Now What Actually Changes?
Universal AI access doesn't only change what students can cheat with. It changes what's worth learning, what a grade certifies, and which students pull ahead.
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Diffing prompts the way you diff code
Prompts are the least version-controlled artefact in most engineering teams. Moving them into files, with a fixture set and a pinned model, turns prompt work from vibes into something you can actually review.
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The Science of Fatigue-Free Interfaces
Interface fatigue isn't about screen time or blue light. It's extraneous cognitive load, decision count, and broken prediction, and those three explain most of the difference between tools.
