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Clark and Chalmers' 1998 paper: Otto's notebook is part of his mind, not just a tool. If cognition extends into environment, tools, and other people — then workspace design is cognitive intervention, externalising thought is extending the system, and AI assistance is restructuring how you think. The most radical and practically useful idea in philosophy of mind.
Recommended as a strong standalone read that can move your model forward quickly.
Clark and Chalmers' 1998 paper: Otto's notebook is part of his mind, not just a tool. If cognition extends into environment, tools, and other people — then workspace design is cognitive intervention, externalising thought is extending the system, and AI assistance is restructuring how you think. The most radical and practically useful idea in philosophy of mind.
Richard Cantillon observed in 1730: newly created money doesn't distribute evenly. It enriches whoever receives it first — before prices adjust. The hidden mechanism behind QE, crypto booms, and every financial cycle. The best single framework for reading who wins when money is printed.
Reliable systems do not assume actions happen exactly once. They are built so repeated actions are safe. That design property is idempotency, and it sits underneath payments, retries, job systems, and failure recovery.
Once systems live on more than one machine, timestamps stop being enough. Vector clocks help distributed systems track causality: not just when something happened, but what could have influenced what.
Best when you want guided progression and cumulative understanding.
Go deeper with The Extended Mind: Your Brain Stops at Your Skull, But Your Thinking Doesn't when you have more focus available.
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