HeyJaredThomas Chatterton Williams
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- Sep 18, 2026
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- Jul 11, 2026
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The Other Way AI Impairs Our Thinking (opens the original)
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AI’s tendency to erode our attention spans has been clear for some time. Letting the technology shoulder the burden of thought atrophies our ability to sustain mental effort. I see this all of the time in the undergrads I teach. The remedy, as I tell them, is to embrace exertion and keep our cognitive muscles active. But suddenly, AI has started sapping people’s concentration in a new way, one that feels much harder to combat. In the past week, consulting virtually any major news source—not to m
The Social Ritual That Made Me a Better Man (opens the original)
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My early days of expatriation were disorienting. It was 2011, and I had recently gotten married and moved to Paris. Although I didn’t realize it at the time, my friendships to that point had depended on proximity: Once I crossed the Atlantic, many of them dwindled to digital approximations of intimacy. I went long stretches without talking to Carlos, my closest confidant since high school, even though we’d been like family when we lived in Brooklyn. At the age of 30, I was learning just how frag
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