Critical Thinking in the Age of AI

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Most people treat Notion versus Obsidian as a choice you have to make once. It is not. They are designed for completely different kinds of work, and understanding that distinction will change how you use both of them.

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The traditional full-time job is not disappearing overnight, but the conditions that made it stable are changing faster than most people realize. In this episode, I break down what the gig economy data actually says, why AI is accelerating the disaggregation of knowledge work specifically, and why the most strategic response is not to chase scale but to build with precision. She introduces the concept of the Ant Company: small, focused, community-rooted, and increasingly powerful in a landscape that AI is reorganizing from the bottom up.

Sources Referenced:
Upwork / Freelancers Union Future Workforce Report: https://www.upwork.com/research/future-workforce-index-2025
Freelance Economy Statistics, DemandSage (2025): https://www.demandsage.com/gig-economy-statistics/
Gig Economy Statistics, Pebl / Velocity Global (2025) — https://hellopebl.com/resources/blog/gig-economy-statistics/
Proverbs 30:25, ESV — https://www.bible.com/bible/59/pro.30.25.ESV
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There's an entire ecosystem of AI tools, many of them free, open-source, and running entirely on your own device, that most people have never heard of. This episode breaks down what local AI is, what you give up when you use it, and which tools are worth trying today. Including Jan.ai, Locally AI for Apple devices, and Obsidian for local project management. If your AI use involves anything sensitive, this episode is for you.

Sources Referenced
Jan.ai (open-source, offline AI assistant for Mac, Windows, Linux): https://www.jan.ai
Locally AI (on-device AI for iPhone, iPad, and Mac): https://locallyai.app
Obsidian (local-first knowledge management): https://obsidian.md
Featherless AI (catalog of 26,000+ open-source models): https://featherless.ai
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There's a concept that reframes everything you thought you knew about AI transparency and it came from one of the most powerful talks on AI I've ever witnessed in person.
At the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI conference in Paris, former White House OSTP Director Dr. Alondra Nelson introduced the concept of algorithmic agnotology: the deliberate, strategic production of ignorance by AI companies to avoid accountability. It's not just corporate spin, but a system.

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What is actually happening at the frontier of AI safety research? I attended Day One of IASEAI 2026, the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI, in Paris, and I'm breaking down everything you need to know.

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