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Intentional AI with Guest David Sparks

Intentional AI with guest David Sparks

There is a quiet question underneath all our new tools: when does something meant to serve us quietly begin to lead us instead? This week David Sparks and I sit with that, feeling for the line where a tool stays a tool and where it starts asking us to work for it.

 

Join me and David Sparks as we talk through using AI intentionally — the donkey work it does well, the taste and judgment it cannot hold, the pause that keeps our agency ours, and the small pull of the analog last mile.

Tune in to this week's Rhythms of Focus S01 Episode 79 - GUEST — David Sparks: Intentional AI.

You'll find David's work, podcasts, and Field Guides linked below.

References: 

David Sparks/MacSparky

MacSparky Field Guides (incl. the AI / "Robot" Field Guide)

Focused

Intentional AI Podcast (with Chris Bailey)

Mac Power Users

Automators

Chris Bailey

Epictetus, the Enchiridion

Alan Watts

Kurt Vonnegut

Ovid, Metamorphoses ("materiam superabat opus")

DEVONthink

OmniFocus

Claude (Anthropic)

Field Notes

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