Academic Velocity

Articles

On AI, education, and training capacity instead of outsourcing thinking.

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The Great Atrophy: Why We Need Athletic Theory in Reading Pedagogy

"Slow reading isn't resistance. It's capitulation."

Reading stamina is a trainable capacity, not a personality trait. Your brain is a muscle.

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The Future Is Humanist: AI in Humanities Higher Education

"The point was never the answers. It was always the journey."

AI didn't kill the humanities. It arrived to find a discipline already hollowed out. Three-part series.

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The Sociopathic Golden Retriever Problem

"Earnest, energetic, desperate to please, and constitutionally incapable of judgment."

How to police your AI editor so you won't get fired or fucked. Includes the full protocol.

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Person-Centered Education in a Time of AI

"You can't optimize a human life. You can only show up for it."

Musk may be right about rockets, but he's wrong about education.