Pathway 2 of 8 · 9 posts · about 85 minutes of reading
Reading the new tools without becoming credulous or apocalyptic.
💡 If this is you: Arts-trained, humanistic, or institutional readers; educators, coaches, policymakers, knowledge workers.
The question this pathway answers: How do we learn to work with emerging technology without surrendering judgment, discernment, or depth?
1. How the Arts Prepared Me to Teach Machines to Think
Tuesday · AI Literacy · about 8 min
Disarms the arts-trained reader by reframing LLMs as a mirror, not an oracle.
Tuesday · AI Literacy · about 11 min
The signature AI essay in the archive: prompt engineering is UX triage; the real skill is process literacy.
3. The Middle Ground: Human Learning in the Age of Code
Sunday · AI Literacy · about 4 min
Concrete pedagogy: where humans still add value when AI generates working code.
4. Not Everything You Think Is True
Sunday · Metacognition · about 4 min
The cognitive substrate for using AI well: hold beliefs as hypotheses; revise without collapse.