Eric Turkington

“Improvement only means something when it's measured by something the loop can't reach.”

— AI's Self-Improvement Bubble

“When life and science moves at the speed of data-center-driven compute, we've engineered ourselves out of the driver's seat.”

— The Biological Rate Limiter

“If phones and social media addiction prey on our attention, AI preys on our effort and value as cognitive creatures.”

— Cognitive Preservation

“Keeping the loop open - to your own mind - is a cost you have to keep deciding to pay.”

— AI's Self-Improvement Bubble

“The patient doesn't archive and curate. Infrastructure does.”

— The Dry Well

“Apparently, AI is not ashamed, and it does not know what it does not know.”

— The Hippocratic Oath AI Needs

“We don't fully trust its judgment because true originality requires bravery — breaking the rules in some way, not just summarizing them.”

— Lost on the Token-Room Floor

“We are the bottleneck in our own revolution.”

— The New YOLO

“We are building a new form of higher intelligence. The least we can do is look it in the eye before we hand over the keys.”

— The New YOLO

“The agent manages the volume of the data; the physician manages the value of the care.”

— Agentic Entropy

“Intellectual growth and progress demands the messy, inefficient collision of different perspectives.”

— Agentic Entropy

“Carelessly deployed AI doesn't just substitute for our thinking; it actively reduces our tolerance for the friction required to do hard work.”

— The Scaffolding Deficit

“You end the day having produced more, but feeling proud of less.”

— What Work Was Doing for Us

“Some inflection points are only visible in hindsight, at which point it will be too late to catch up.”

— What Happens When 'Generation Voice' Grows Up?

“We don't want service to get in the way of the product. But we don't want the product to go entirely unattended. Call it "Self-service+".”

— The Self-Service Conundrum