// writing / tag
cognition
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a tool for thinking
2026-06-06
Writing is a tool for thinking, not the thinking itself. It holds what won't fit in your head and saves where you got to. Hand the working-through to an LLM and you get the result without doing the thinking, and without a state you can pick back up.
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the reps you stop taking
2026-06-01
What quietly goes when you let a language model do the thinking, why it's the part of you worth protecting, and how to keep it sharp, in mind and body.
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a compression of a compression
2026-05-31
Why putting a thought into words flattens it, what that means for language models trained on the flattened version, and the gap that scale doesn't close.