What Still Holds When Everything Accelerates
f there is one thing that holds all of this together, it is the realization that Judgment is a Practice. It is not a title you are given on an org chart; it is a muscle you build through repetition. As Helen Toner put it, we need to treat our cognitive abilities like a gym. We have to do the heavy lifting of thinking and deciding, even when a machine offers to do it for us for free.
May 2, 2026