Knowledge management
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- Working with AI
Google makes schools choose between AI search and no search
Google is switching Search and Gemini off for school student accounts until a school turns them on, and Search only comes with its AI answers. Students still need to learn to find and check sources, and nobody has said who teaches them.
- Working with AI
Loyal to your work, not your model
Google is turning Gems into skills. The AI tools you rely on will keep changing, so keep your prompts, skills, logs and chat summaries outside the chat, where you own them.
- Working with AI
Ask your AI to save its work as files
I've kept a daily log in a file since the early days of using models, so I can switch models or start a new chat and pick up where I was. Ask for your work as files, and keep them in named folders.
- Agents & Tooling
School family knowledge base, part 2
Part 2 of a build log about a school family knowledge base: what information each of the eight sources holds, and the format it arrives in.
- Agents & Tooling
School family knowledge base, part 1
Schools send us information in eight places. That's a lot of channels for parents to coordinate and understand. Part 1 of a build log: the main issue, and how the tasks have to be broken down.
- Agents & Tooling
Space to be human
A week of new school routines and a storm and flood, and what I needed was space to be human.
- Working with AI
Rehearse the Deck You Didn't Write
The illusion of explanatory depth is what happens when the first test of your understanding is live, in front of people.
- Agents & Tooling
Hubble, and the Assumption Baked Into a Notes App Now
"The best notepad for you and your agents." Hubble designs the note format around a second reader from the start.
- Security & Risk
SoN 2.27: I Just Talked With Someone Else's Vault
More than twenty years ago, I sat with a class of eleven- and twelve-year-olds and tried to show them what “connected to the internet” actually meant. We went looking on the…
- Working with AI
SoN 2.24: AI hasn't made me faster
AI hasn’t made me faster — it’s made me able to start Last Tuesday I came out of a meeting with a narrow window before the school run, and inside of it I did the following: sent a…
- Working with AI
Measure twice, cut once — with two AIs
3 June 2026 When you work on your own, the thing you miss most is a second pair of eyes. Trades have known this forever. Carpenters say measure twice, cut once — because once…
- Working with AI
SoN 2.18: Where can I skill up on AI? (Free Edition)
Multi-Tool Fluency Is a Non Starter (Free Edition) Dear Reader, Which tool should I use? The job market case for getting decent at AI got clearer in the last year. PwC analysed…
- Security & Risk
SoN Vol 2, Issue 14: What about everything we learned? (Free Edition)
What about everything we learned? (Free Edition) Hey there, What about everything we learned? Last week we sent the shutdown email for MyCityZen. It was a small product, but there…
- Agents & Tooling
Context Is the New Bottleneck. So Is Judgment.
Tiago Forte says AI shifts the bottleneck from capability to context. He's right — but that only works if you still have opinions worth providing.
- Agents & Tooling
SoN Vol 2, Issue 13: Are your tools deciding how you think? (Free Edition)
Are your tools deciding how you think? (Free Edition) Hey there, Are your tools deciding how you think? Your CRM shows you a flat list. Your project tracker shows you a board.…
- Agents & Tooling
Mozilla Built Stack Overflow for Agents. I Built It by Hand.
Mozilla's cq gives AI coding agents dynamic, evolving context — formalizing what power users already figured out through trial and error.
- Agents & Tooling
Perplexity Is Learning What I Learned Six Months Ago
The Perplexity CTO says MCP eats 40-50% of your context window. Practitioners already knew this.
- Working with AI
SoN Vol 2, Issue 9: The Mirror and the Telescope (Free)
The Mirror and The Telescope Dear Reader, “Know thyself” has been advice for about 2,500 years. The inscription at Delphi, Socrates building a whole philosophy around it, every…
- Agents & Tooling
SoN 33: The Questions I'm Asking My AI Before the New Year
Last week I asked Claude a simple question: “What patterns do you see in how I’ve been working this month?” Some hours later, I was reviewing a complete redesign of how I approach…
- Agents & Tooling
The Landscape of Available AI Tools
Let's be honest: the AI tool landscape in 2025 is a mess. Every week, a new "game-changing" tool drops. One promises to write better than Hemingway. Another will build you a SaaS…
