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  • How Meditation Is Like Looking at The Sun

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    I was incredibly fortunate to experience the 2024 solar eclipse in optimal conditions. It was a warm spring day. The sky was clear. Montreal, the city I live in, was devoted to making this a communal experience, providing hundreds of thousands of eclipse glasses for free. Most of the schools were closed so that people…

  • Harnessing The Unhappiness of Future Generations

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    Whether AI will support the happiness, or the misery, of future generations is up to us I didn’t need a world happiness report to tell me that young adults in North America are suffering alarming levels of unhappiness. I witnessed this first hand last week, when I went to see Dune with a young family member…

  • Primed to compute

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    Making algorithmic thinking a core skill A while back, some were calling coding a “new literacy.” With the advent of AI, the world seems to be leaning away from that. But what hasn’t disappeared is the need to strengthen the kind of thinking that coding requires. Whether we call it computational literacy, or algorithmic literacy, AI…

  • AI Literacy: Reframing Attitudes

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    This is a thought piece I wrote for a panel on Algorithm Literacy that I was invited to moderate at UNESCO’s Digital Learning Week in September. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to make it to Paris, but still worth thinking about for 2024, so sharing it here… Recently, out of curiosity, I asked Chat GPT 3…

  • Prize Season

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    I was a book critic for many years, so I know November is a heady time in the book world. Because December is the month where the vast majority of books are sold (Merry Christmas!) if you can get a book noticed in November, through a spot on a shortlist, or better yet, a prize,…