You can outsource your thinking, but you can't outsource your understanding.

Andrej Karpathy shared this thought at AI Ascent 2026, and it struck a chord.

Today, it's never been easier to outsource cognitive tasks. We use AI to research, summarise, and draft. It drives incredible productivity. But can we achieve …

I had been curious about the benefits of e-ink tablets since the release of the Remarkable v1. I wondered whether its lightweight design and supposedly paper-like writing experience would allow me to replace my paper notebooks and complement my digital note-taking system. When Boox released the Go 10.3, I …