# Eric's Blog

> A semi-regular newsletter at the intersection of art, life, and tech. I write mainly to capture my own history of thought and progression, but I hope each one carries a kernel of usefulness for you too.

## Recent Posts

- [They Say AI Makes You Dumber. Here's What They Got Wrong.](https://paragraph.com/@epr/ai-makes-you-dumber): MIT’s latest study on LLMs tells a deeply misleading story.
- [Why AI Still Falls Short at Understanding Real Users](https://paragraph.com/@epr/ai-is-not-a-substitute-for-user-research): Simulated interviews fall short when complexity, emotion, and nuance enter the conversation.
- [People Have One Advantage Over AI](https://paragraph.com/@epr/people-have-one-advantage-over-ai): We're better at navigating the ambiguity of a messy world, where the rules of the game aren't clear.
- [Stanford Confirms My Research Findings](https://paragraph.com/@epr/stanford-confirms-ai-future-of-work-research): AI is changing how people relate to each other at work.
- [The Icarus Deception](https://paragraph.com/@epr/the-icarus-deception): The greatest trick ever pulled was convincing us it’s better to avoid making mistakes.
- [The Great Debate: Who Gets to Be an Artist](https://paragraph.com/@epr/the-great-debate-who-gets-to-be-an-artist): A collector says only world-builders deserve the title. We disagree.
- [I Built This Because I Had To](https://paragraph.com/@epr/ai-in-the-workplace-study): And now I need your help to finish what I started.
- [When Art Became Social](https://paragraph.com/@epr/when-art-became-social)
- [The Artist's Oath](https://paragraph.com/@epr/the-artists-oath)
- [Who Gets to Claim the Moral High Ground in the AI vs IP Debate?](https://paragraph.com/@epr/ai-ip-moral-high-ground)
- [Book Notes: Hidden Potential by Adam Grant](https://paragraph.com/@epr/hidden-potential-by-adam-grant): How talent gets uncovered and how most systems aren’t built to notice it until it starts looking a certain way. 
- [Art Was Never Enough](https://paragraph.com/@epr/art-was-never-enough): How AI, social media, and NFTs make the case for attention and collective creation
- [On Becoming a Designer](https://paragraph.com/@epr/on-becoming-a-designer): How an unexpected detour through computer science led me to experience design
- [AI Won’t Kill Junior Roles, But It Will Squeeze the Middle](https://paragraph.com/@epr/ai-wont-kill-entry-level-jobs): As AI automates routine tasks, entry-level roles aren't disappearing. They're inheriting more responsibility while mid-tier support structures quietly vanish.
- [Not Everyone’s Chasing the Same Thing](https://paragraph.com/@epr/not-everyones-chasing-the-same-thing)
- ["There's a reason and a season"](https://paragraph.com/@epr/theres-a-reason-and-a-season): A reflection on what we see in hindsight, and what art shows us before we’re ready to face it
- [My Artistic Foundations](https://paragraph.com/@epr/my-artistic-foundations): And the Enduring Impact of My High School Art Teachers
- [My SocialFi Experiment (3 Years Too Early)](https://paragraph.com/@epr/my-socialfi-experiment): I didn’t invent SocialFi. But I prototyped it before the term existed.
- [Does AI allow us to return to the art of craft?](https://paragraph.com/@epr/does-ai-allow-us-to-return-to-the-art-of-craft): How democratized tools may be raising the bar for creativity, skill, and connoisseurship.
- [Cheap Stickers and Sacred Symbols](https://paragraph.com/@epr/cheap-stickers-and-sacred-symbols): Exploring the emotional resonance of flowers through kitsch and memory

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