Learn to Think in Color

What Makes a Question Too Small? The danger is not brevity. It is premature narrowing. Framing the Question What makes a question too small? A question is too small when it gives you an answer before it gives you a view. It aims at one visible symptom, one preferred fix, or one convenient metric while the real issue sits outside the frame. The problem is not that the question is brief. Some of the strongest questions are tiny. The problem is that the question is too narrow for the decision it is supposed to guide. A Small Question Can Be Useful—or Dangerous A question becomes too small when answering it well would not improve the thing that actually matters. “How do we make this meeting shorter?” may be useful. But if the real problem is that no one knows who owns the decision, a shorter meeting just produces faster confusion. “How do we get more clicks?” may be useful. But if the product promise is wrong, better clicks can send more people into a bad experience. The counterintuitive p...

What Does the News Do to Your Priorities? Media' influence The headline may be real. The interruption still has to earn its place. Framing the Question The relationship between news and priorities becomes visible whenever a headline changes not only what you notice, but what you do next. News can warn you about an immediate risk or make an old plan obsolete. It can also turn public excitement, fear, or speculation into private urgency before you have asked whether action is required. The question is not whether the news matters. It is whether it deserves to move your calendar. A Headline Should Not Automatically Become a Task News should change your priorities when it changes a decision you own, identifies an action you can take, and makes delay meaningfully costly. Otherwise, it belongs in awareness, not command. This is difficult because news is organized by salience: what appears most urgent now. In their classic agenda-setting study, Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw found that ...

Why Is Artificial General Intelligence a Dangerous Distraction? How to balance ambition with impact in the race for smarter machines. 📦Framing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)—a system that can think, learn, and reason across any domain like a human—has long been cast as the “endgame” of AI. Billions in investment now flow toward this vision. But here’s the dilemma: while AGI captures headlines, narrow AI is already delivering real-world impact—detecting cancers earlier, accelerating drug discovery, reducing emissions, and strengthening cybersecurity. The challenge isn’t that AGI research is useless. In fact, many foundational advances (like attention mechanisms and transfer learning) came from work framed around general intelligence. The challenge is  emphasis and sequencing . Treating AGI as an imminent engineering goal risks diverting scarce resources from proven, high-impact applications. The smarter path is prioritizing measurable benefits now, while pursuing fundamental...