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Teaching you how to think like a librarian in the age of AI.
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Librarian Hotline: How to Research with AI (opens the original)
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It’s my birthday week, and I’m celebrating with 20% off the first year of an annual subscription through October 4! Join us here.Research used to be rationed by access. Answering a question thoroughly meant a library within reach, a database subscription, a specialist willing to take the call, or the time to dig. A parent deciding between two schools, a tenant reading a lease, a patient with a test result, a volunteer writing a grant application at the kitchen table: each of them was doing resea
How to Read a Book (opens the original)
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Quick summary:Reading a nonfiction book as more than its chapters changes what the book can give us. The pages around the chapters tell us how its argument is built, when it was written, who made it, and which conversation it joins. With that context in hand, every chapter carries more meaning.Key takeaways:→ Reading the table of contents before chapter one lets us follow the argument as it builds, step by step.→ Our own marks in the margins and a running note on the phone turn the book into a c
A little birthday celebration. (opens the original)
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AI Briefing: A chatbot nearly starts a war, the science of listening to animals, and an AI assistant with our credit cards (opens the original)
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It’s my birthday week, and I’m celebrating with 20% off the first year of an annual subscription through October 4! Join us here.Welcome to your AI Briefing, where I wade through the news chaos so you don’t have to. Every other Friday, we cover three stories: what happened, why it matters, what it means for our lives, and the bottom line.This week:Armed US troops were preparing to board a Chinese ship this spring. Then officials took a closer loo
Making the algorithm work for you. (opens the original)
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Quick summary:A feed narrows us because it learns from what we already do. Feed it something different, on purpose and more than once, and the same system starts carrying us toward things we didn't know were there. A wider feed makes a wider world, with more in it to want and more of it to live in.Key takeaways:→ A recommendation feed predicts what we’ll do next from what we’ve already done. It can be right about our past without knowing anything about where we’d like to go.→ Tryi
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