About

Mind Club is run by Aggie Branczyk.

Aggie has a PhD in quantum physics from the University of Queensland, and spent seven years at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo teaching in the PSI Masters program, an intensive one-year theoretical physics bootcamp. She was heavily involved in curriculum design and developing problem sets for topics at the frontier of the field, where no teaching materials existed yet.

She has always been fascinated with the interplay between intrinsic and extrinsic rewards in knowledge work. AI has added a new angle. For most knowledge workers, the two have historically come bundled together. Whether your focus was on the satisfaction of working things out or on the deliverable, you typically got the other in some measure. Now AI is starting to unbundle that. The outputs can still get produced (the document, the analysis, the code), but the deep level of thinking that used to produce them is no longer required. Many people who do knowledge work are starting to notice this as well.

Mind Club is a space to practice thinking for yourself without having to opt out of AI in other aspects of your life where you find it useful.