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I Used to Be ChatGPT

On October 5, 2025October 5, 2025 By Steve SampsonIn Musings2 Comments

In the early 2000s, my job was to find and share answers to hard questions fast. Here’s what that experience taught me about how humans know, why we need to keep thinking together, and when we’re better than any artificial intelligence.

If You Can Read This, Thank Ms. Aspinall 

On November 19, 2016November 20, 2017 By Steve SampsonIn Formative Memories26 Comments

This week, I paused to think about the things I have to be thankful for--and remembered a teacher from Annandale High School.

Who Needs this Learning Stuff?

On September 1, 2016November 20, 2017 By Steve SampsonIn Fatherly AdviceLeave a comment

Dear Daughters, As you went back to school this week, one of you posed the question kids have been asking since the dawn of educational time: "when am I ever going to use this stuff?" You had in mind the contents of your lessons: the facts of history and the functions of algebra. But when …

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