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Currently reading: How to Save the World: Disciplemaking Made Simple by Alice Matagora 📚
How AI affects thinking skills and if it matters:.
“The data shows a shift in cognitive effort as knowledge workers increasingly move from task execution to oversight when using GenAI,” the researchers wrote. “Surprisingly, while AI can improve efficiency, it may also reduce critical engagement, particularly in routine or lower-stakes tasks in which users simply rely on AI, raising concerns about long-term reliance and diminished independent problem-solving.”
Currently reading: Uncommon Service by Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss 📚
🎨 So proud of my wife! Check out all these paintings Della did last month. Big images and sale links at dellachelpka.art. Follow her on socials @dellachelpka.art

Arizona Luminaria wrote about yesterday‘s Point In Time Count, where volunteers helped count and survey the homeless in Tucson.
Currently reading: Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L’Amour 📚
The Linda Ronstadt Music Hall. Tucson Symphony Orchestra and Girls Chorus performed Mahler’s 3rd Symphony there last night.
Reading: Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America by Steve Inskeep 📚
Reading: On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice by Adam Kirsch 📚
There is a lot to love about the Mushroom Color Atlas and it’s website.
A Dyslexia-friendly edition of the ESV is coming this January. I just pre-ordered it. This will be a blessing to one of our kids and many others who struggle with Dyslexia. Thank you, @crosswaybooks.