One Useful Thing (Substack)

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www.oneusefulthing.org

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Ethan Mollick
Substack Pubs

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2025-08 PLANETcollab Podcast #3 — Jerry Michalski
30 Months on the Exponential (in Charts)
A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era
Against "Brain Damage"
Agency and Agents
AI has a strategy.
AI in organizations: Some tactics
AI is not good software. It is pretty good people.
Almost an Agent: What GPTs can do
An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now (10/2025)
An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff (summer 2026)
Becoming strange in the Long Singularity
Catastrophe / Eucatastrophe
Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged Frontier (xlnt)
Choosing to Stay Human
Claude Code and What Comes Next
Claude Dispatch and the Power of Interfaces
Co-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence
Democratizing the future of education
Doing Stuff with AI: Opinionated Midyear Edition
Everyone is above average
Four Singularities for Research
Google's Gemini Advanced: Tasting Notes and Implications
GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff (early access review)
Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold
How to Get an AI to Lie to You in Three Simple Steps
How to use AI to do practical stuff: A new guide (xlnt)
I, Cyborg: Using Co-Intelligence
Innovation through prompting
Latent Expertise: Everyone is in R&D
Management as AI superpower
Mass Intelligence
My class required AI. Here's what I've learned so far.
No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
Now is the time for grimoires
On Working with Wizards (xlnt)
Personality and Persuasion
Power and Weirdness: How to Use Bing AI (xlnt)
Prophecies of the Flood (What to make of the statements of the AI labs?)
Scaling: The State of Play in AI
Secret Cyborgs: The Present Disruption in Three Papers
Sign of the future: GPT-5.5
Strategies for an Accelerating Future
Superhuman?
The Dot and the Swarm (xlnt)
The future, soon: what I learned from Bing's AI
The Homework Apocalypse
The Overhang
The Shape of AI: Jaggedness, Bottlenecks and Salients (year-end 2025)
The Shape of the Thing
The twilight of the chatbots
This post, full of mysteries...
Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3
What it feels like to work with Mythos
What OpenAI did
When you give a Claude a mouse

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