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7 articles tagged "editorial"
Time-blocking that assumes you can estimate time. Habit trackers that assume consistency. Focus mode that assumes you can initiate. An honest editorial on why every mainstream productivity tool assumes the exact executive function that's the thing missing — and what designing for ADHD actually looks like.
Every productivity app in the world has, at some point in the last three years, added an AI coach. The coach has a friendly name. It asks about your goals. It wants to help you make a plan. It will check in with you tomorrow morning at 8 am with an encouraging message about today…
AI tools don't remember the way humans do. A philosophical third entry in the Hallucinations series on the specific failure modes around memory — and what it means that the tools don't have the thing that makes human cognition what it is.
Here's a scene that plays out more often than anyone writing about AI lately has been willing to admit. Consider a hobbyist — this is a pattern we've heard several versions of — who used an AI assistant three months ago to brainstorm names for a small woodworking project. Bookshe…