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Reclaiming Our Curiosity

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The Reflection Episode on Curiosity in the Age of AI

In this episode:

  • Why the goldfish attention span claim is fabricated, and where the number actually came from.
  • The same shape behind the ten-percent brain myth, and what these stories have in common.
  • Why most of us track our successes but never the times we were wrong.
  • The Curiosity Journal: a holding place for curiosity that arrives at inconvenient moments.
  • "Keep asking": how the surface answer becomes the starting point, not the destination.
  • How large language models actually work, and why the shape of your prompt determines what comes back.
  • Two practices for sparking curiosity in the people you lead: modelling the not-knowing, and protecting the space.

    • Mentioned in this episode:

    Episode 1: The Lazy Human.
    Episode 4: The Confidence Trap.
    Episode 5: The End of Why (the main episode this reflection follows).

    Next episode: The Broken Spine.

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    THE NEW WORK PLAYBOOKBy Annett Burger