Essays on decisions, focus, and the questions that change everything.
From Rob, Mostly is a blog and platform for essays on reframing decisions, attention in a distracted world, and building the skills that actually matter—with some overlap with Substack, but more dynamic and fully-featured.
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A professional kitchen only produces art when the people at the bottom hold a narrow, deep focus and the person at the top holds a wide, shallow one. That inversion is a portable mental model — for orchestras, armies, companies, and the teams of humans and machines we're about to build.
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AI erased the hardest-looking obstacle in college admissions and left the actually hard part completely untouched. The data shows what happened next.
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AI didn't perfect the essay or kill the craft of code. It made the median free — and revealed that the craft was always one layer up from the typing we mistook it for.
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The difference isn't the app — it's whether it protects the struggle or removes it. And you can tell which one you've got in about ten minutes.
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A free radical employee isn't a brilliant jerk. They're structurally illegible — and that's both their value and their problem depending on what your company needs right now.