Deep Reading, Deep Thinking: Newport and Carr

Reflections on AI-bingeing, the skimmable, and the shallow

Greetings and simulations,

Earlier in March, I went on an AI binge. I wrote about it on this very Substack. I followed Ethan Mollick’s advice to incorporate AI into everything I was doing. I used it to help me garden and plan out updates to my garage. It was a sort of self-induced, digital Project MK Ultra, an experiment with a very powerful intellectual…