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From Thumbelina to Promptbelina: digital bridges in the age of AI

The thumb became a prompt, but the responsibility is still human. Michel Serres used Thumbelina as a metaphor for a new kind of human being shaped by the digital revolution: someone who communicated with her thumbs, moved naturally through screens, learned outside traditional institutions, and…

AI detectors are not protecting writing. They are policing voice.

What the panic around AI detection gets wrong about authorship, education, and human judgment I have a problem with AI detectors. Not because I think people should use AI irresponsibly. Not because I think authorship does not matter. Not because I believe students, writers, researchers,…

AI Can Mimic Slop. It Cannot Mimic Vision.

What the panic around AI gets wrong about talent, creative work, and the future of human judgment I started thinking about this after watching another conversation about AI and the future of Learning and Development. At first, it sounded like a very specific industry discussion.…

AI Needs Teachers Too

What migrating corporate learning from an LMS to SharePoint taught me about context, curation, and learning in the flow of work For a long time, corporate learning has followed a familiar script. A new topic appears. Someone decides that people need to learn it. A…

The Beauty of 20 Tokens per Second: Why I Use Local AI to Think Slower

Many times we are obsessed with the fast track. We want the answer now. The summary now. The draft now. The idea now. Cloud AI models are designed to satisfy that anxiety. They are engineering marvels capable of producing neat paragraphs, structured plans, and complete…

The Zone of No Development: When AI Learns for Us

In learning experience design, we often pursue efficiency. If a tool speeds up a process, reduces friction, or removes an obstacle, our first reaction is usually positive. And that makes sense. In L&D, we often work with limited time, limited resources, multiple audiences, and constant…

The Architecture Behind “Mini Brains”

In the previous article, I argued that the real shift in artificial intelligence is not about capability, but about intentionality. The problem is no longer whether AI can produce outputs. It clearly can. The problem is that most of those outputs are produced without a…