Musings on Mastery | Arturo E. Hernandez | Substack
Musings on Mastery
My personal Substack views on Mastery for both individuals and social systems.
By Arturo E. Hernandez
· Launched 3 years ago
The Compass in the Liver
What the strangest organ in a homing pigeon says about where your own sense of place is kept
The Society of AI
Modularity, co-option, and the trick AI hasn’t learned
Our Writing Equipment Takes Part in the Forming of Our Thoughts
What a Kaypro, a bottle of white-out, and Friedrich Nietzsche can teach us about AI
The Interference Tax
It’s not that students learn worse. It’s that everything interferes with everything else now.
Why I Still Love Academia
I ask students to write their reflections by hand.
Dynamism at the Margins, Seam at the Core
Why Philosophy May Not Be the Saving Grace Everyone Thinks It Is
The resilience is real. It may also be measuring something other than philosophy.
The Wave That’s Already Here
Why the university has to die before it can be reborn
The Seam Jay Caspian Kang Cannot See
Tennis at the Event Horizon
It might be time to pull out the NFL's playbook
The Grant Event Horizon
A Commentary on Reese and Wilsdon
Type B for Balanced
Why some of us experience AI as neither machine nor person