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Claude and Paper - Peter Van Dijck's homepage
I've always done a lot of engineering work on paper, figuring out relationships, page layouts, models, UX etc.
Early Tools for Thought, Mark Bernstein @ Tools For Thought Rocks
Manuscript — an imagined editor for research writing
A walk through an imagined product for academic writing, mocked up by Claude Design.
howard rheingold's | tools for thought
supernote-cli: pen, paper, and a pipe
A recent NYT piece argued we need a mental fitness revolution to combat the cognitive decay caused by algorithmic feeds and generative AI. It's an efficient one-two punch. If you're not brainrotting on short form video content, you're outsourcing all of your thinking to an LLM. The result is a kind of cognitive strip-mining. What's left requires active defense. For me, one way of defending that capacity for deep work is with a pen on e-ink. Whether it's annotating a paper or starting a sketch from scratch, I'm intentionally making room for focused thought. My army of clawed Claudes and Codexes will just have to wait.
In Defense of Thinking - Cal Newport
Ten years ago, I published Deep Work. It was my second mainstream hardcover idea book. The previous title, So Good They Can’t Ignore You, hadn’t ... Read more

Ink & Switch
An independent research lab exploring the future of tools for thought.

Magic Paper
Working notes by Michael Nielsen, November 2017. Followup to (but doesn't require) my notes on Chalktalk.
reMarkable: The Paper Tablets for Focused Work
Experience the power of focused work. reMarkable’s paper tablets and accessories provide a dedicated space for your notes, documents, and ideas, free from notifications. Reclaim your attention now.

Interdependent Thoughts
Bookmarked Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? by Ted Chiang in the New Yorker
No There There by Chris Rhomberg - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Great new-ish paper by @zephoria.bsky.social I have a few thoughts …
Had to put some thoughts to digital paper on my recent journey.
The Power of a Well Built Community
mihaizaurus.leaflet.pubCognitive Architectures for Language Agents
Thinking—Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

Warnings for pattern matching
Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation: A Survey with Focus on Repository-Level Approaches
Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts
TDOP Pratt