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Cognitive Wallpaper #001: Field Notes on Productive Friction
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What comes after web literacy?
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Weeknote 19/2026
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Beyond Elegant Consumption (Again)
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Literacy-slop
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April 2026: frameworks, friction, and federation
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Weeknote 18/2026
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The end of an era
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My tech disclaimer
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Claude Code used to be the obvious choice
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Weeknote 17/2026
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How a little “productive friction” protects human agency
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Choosing partnership over "certainty theatre"
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Turning polygonal badges into contours of practice
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Weeknote 16/2026
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Introducing Commonplace
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Literate communities have always looked different to their critics
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Supporting AI Literacies for Young Adults Aged 14-19
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Weeknote 15/2026
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Weeknote 14/2026
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Want a clearer view of your tech stack? Join the TechFreedom pilot cohort
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March 2026: building, badges, and Borges
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Stacktopolis: a SimCity 2000-inspired game about real-world tech sovereignty problems
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Weeknote 13/2026
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You can now support Open Thinkering
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Secure your place in the TechFreedom pilot cohort!
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Blog posts in the Stream, that is what we are
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Weeknote 12/2026
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My 7-step approach for authentic AI-assisted blogging
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Badge Studio is back!
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Sightlines: small, practical systems thinking tools for mission-driven organisations
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Weeknote 11/2026
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Badges that change shape to show skills development
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When AI remembers everything and organisations forget how to choose
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DOUG.md
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Weeknote 10/2026
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TechFreedom and the risks hiding in your tech stack
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ChronoTasker: turning my to-do list into a clockface
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When AI tools give you choices but take your agency
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Weeknote 09/2026
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February 2026: cooperation, complexity, and code
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The (AI) lottery is already running
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The next chapter
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I needed a scheduling tool that respects privacy. So I built one.
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Weeknote 08/2026
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Weeknote 07/2026
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Your data might be in Europe but your risks are not
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New ebook: How to Be Less Wrong in a Polycrisis
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Why some organisations learn to be less wrong (and others don't)
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Weeknote 06/2026
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Building a 'thinking system' to help you be less wrong
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How to be less wrong in a polycrisis
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Ambiguity, legibility, and working in the open (ambiguiti.es)
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Weeknote 05/2026
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January 2026: systems, software, and self
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Claude's Constitution and the trap of corporate AI ethics
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Extending Proton Calendar beyond its limits
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The purpose of your website is what it does
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Weeknote 04/2026
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Why your organisation needs someone “unemployable”
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Why your worst decision probably came from your best analysis
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How and why I've migrated from from Google to Proton
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Weeknote 03/2026
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Cognitive Autonomous Zones: against “framework fundamentalism”
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You are here: mental models for 2026
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You can ask AI to write the code, but the hard part is... everything after that
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Weeknote 02/2026
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Why books are now luxury goods
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Digital colonialism is where jurisdiction matters more than geography
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AGI isn't “coming” – it's already reshaping how young people think
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Cash Value: Katherine Ryan, William James, and... getting on with it
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The uncomfortable truth about getting people off US tech
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Understanding yourself isn't enough
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Helping strangers access the internet
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The strange magic of the third week
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Your mental models are out of date
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2026: Can't complain
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Goodbye 2025
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Why I care about running a private, resilient blog
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What promised to liberate us instead helps to control us
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Welcome to blog.dougbelshaw.com
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Answering the 40 questions (2025)
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Books I read (and those I gave up on) in 2025
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My favourite Thought Shrapnel posts of 2025
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My 10 favourite music albums of 2025
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45 quotations for my birthday
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5 ways of understanding the world at the end of 2025
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Moving on from Feedly and rebooting my RSS feed list
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Developing agency among agents via 'hypertextual friction'
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The app paradigm inversion
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Programme interrupted: #BelshawBlackOps25
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Weeknote 48/2025
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Weeknote 47/2025
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Organising some thoughts around ambiguity
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Weeknote 46/2025
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Weeknote 45/2025
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Things change (or, Montaigne and the Open Web)
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Weeknote 44/2025
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Individual benefits, societal harms?
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Weeknote 43/2025
