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How Mind Club got started
Alex Kinsella from Bit Bakery wrote up the origin story of Mind Club.
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Mind Club is going quantum
A new series of Mind Club sessions on quantum mechanics. You can't fully understand quantum mechanics without the math, but you can teach a curious person enough of it to get pretty far. No physics background needed. More like puzzles than math.
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A framework for Mind Club problem design
Using Jonassen's 11 problem types to see what the first two Mind Club sessions actually were, and to design the third with more intention.
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Will AI make you stupid?
An Economist piece from June 2025 on cognitive offloading. The concern is that offloading writing and problem-solving is categorically different from offloading arithmetic, and that the tendency to seek the least effortful path might be self-reinforcing.
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Outsourcing your memory limits your ability to think
A friend sent me an article on the cognitive costs of outsourcing memory. It was written before generative AI. Now we can offload reasoning too.
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