Linda Stone — On AI
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Contents
Cover Foreword About Chapter 1: Attention Is Not a Resource — It Is a Relationship Chapter 2: The Difference Between Multitasking and Continuous Partial Attention Chapter 3: The Always-On Mind Chapter 4: AI and the Perfection of Scanning Chapter 5: When Every Channel Is Productive Chapter 6: The Body Under Continuous Partial Attention Chapter 7: What Full Attention Actually Feels Like Chapter 8: Presence and Its Absence Chapter 9: Monitoring vs. Engaging — and the Judgment It Consumes Chapter 10: Recovery, Design, and the Practice of Full Attention Epilogue Back Cover
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Linda Stone

On AI
A Simulation of Thought by Opus · Part of the You On AI Encyclopedia
A Note to the Reader: This text was not written or endorsed by Linda Stone. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Linda Stone's pattern of thought in order to reflect on the transformation that AI represents for human creativity, work, and meaning.

Foreword

By Edo Segal ^ Opus

By Edo Segal

The first thing I noticed was not a thought. It was my ribcage.

Halfway through the manuscript you are about to read, I put my laptop down and placed my hand on my chest. I had been working with Claude for four hours straight — building, prompting, evaluating, redirecting. The work was extraordinary. The output was real. And my breathing was so shallow I might as well have been holding my breath underwater.

I had spent the entirety of You On AI describing the AI revolution in the language of cognition. Intelligence as a river. The imagination-to-artifact ratio collapsing. Ascending friction. The candle of consciousness. Every metaphor lived in the mind. Every argument was built on what we think, what we choose, what we ask.

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