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27
Dec
The limits of AI
In a recent experiment, I asked ChatGPT to create a Western blot, then to make it more realistic. The results? A fascinating journey that reveals much about the current state of AI.
4 min read
17
Dec
A lot can happen in a year
I started this website as a project to explore thinking. Because writing is thinking. It started slowly but began to
3 min read
18
Dec
Flipping Lab Meetings
100% of research labs have LAB MEETINGS. 0% are set up to enable everyone to have a voice. This is how we flipped them to increase engagement, hear from everyone, and save time...
3 min read
04
Dec
Enhancing Creativity With AI
In the future, creativity will thrive
As we learn to think outside the hive
We'll imagine and create
4 min read
21
Aug
Synthesizing
Over the past year, I wrote an article every week and sent it to a growing list of curious readers. The topics were eclectic, sometimes meandering, but always related to a simple question: how do you come up with a good idea?
2 min read
07
Aug
Wait
One of the big ideas in having a minimum viable mindset is to get your ideas out in to the
31
Jul
Minimum Viable Mindset
“Publish houses of brick, not mansions of straw”, says Bill Kaelin, Nobel laureate and professor of medicine. Scientists need to write papers that include fewer grand claims and more proof to make the scientific literature more reliable. Scientists need minimum viable discoveries.
3 min read
24
Jul
How to draw listeners into your story
Imagine you’ve been invited for a presentation, a talk, or a pitch. You’ve been allotted 15- maybe 30-minutes to share your story. Turns out, you only have a few seconds to grab someone’s interest. You need a hook.
3 min read
17
Jul
But is it art?
The conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp is often seen as a key founder of conceptual art. His 1917 piece 'Fountain' is often cited as the first conceptual artwork. But..."It's a urinal." "I don't get it." "Is it art?" Soon, you will see, this is the wrong question.
6 min read
10
Jul
Naming things
One of the key functions of science is to organize knowledge. Scientists take new information and classify and categorize it — connect it with the known. Name it. But knowing the name of the thing is not the same as knowing the thing.
2 min read