Just taking a moment to say what ought to be said.

If we mapped current #AI companies to consumer tech from the 2010s: Anthropic = Apple. Focused on high quality for a smaller market. Stubborn and opinionated in annoying ways, but innovating in important ones. Sets trends. Genuine in its principles, whether or not you agree with them. 1/x

If we mapped current #AI companies to consumer tech from the 2010s: Anthropic = Apple. Focused on high quality for a smaller market. Stubborn and opinionated in annoying ways, but innovating in important ones. Sets trends. Genuine in its principles, whether or not you agree with them. 1/x

I'm not sure how to process the irony of #Moltbook, a social network for AI agents, getting spammed by *human beings* there to promote their crypto and SaaS nonsense. The idea of Moltbook is funny/cursed, but I think most of the viral stuff is fake. It was almost certainly made by people.

Just here to say I hit inbox zero. Such an amazing, if fleeting, feeling.

Politically, academics are much more liberal than the average person. But Paul Bloom makes the excellent point that, in areas related to their work, academics are actually deeply conservative. www.aaronmiller.info/professors-a...

What it was like when an economist spent the year doing AI-driven research. The reality is still that creativity and nuanced judgment of what constitutes a good research are still missing in AI. What 2026 will bring is less certain, in my opinion. www.aaronmiller.info/joshua-gans-...

Imagine being there as someone is on the verge of bombing a hospital. And you have a chance to talk him down. Absolutely incredible story. www.aaronmiller.info/an-amazing-s...

I need to get more comfortable shooting people, but I did enjoy trying out a bit of street photography with some friends. If anyone has advice for getting more comfortable shooting strangers, I'm all ears. #photography #fujifilm #streetphotography www.aaronmiller.info/some-provo-s...

This is the year I made landscape photography an official hobby. Here are my ten favorite photos from 2025. #landscapephotography #landscape #photography #fujifilm www.aaronmiller.info/my-ten-favor...#landscapephotography

Christmas Eve sunrise over Utah Lake. (iPhone 17 Pro) #landscape #landscapephotography

Companies that lay off workers to replace with AI either misunderstand how AI agents work or are just low-ambition. In either case, they'll be beaten by companies who know how people make the difference. I wrote this to explain the idea. I hope it can help. #ai www.aaronmiller.info/low-ambition...

Apropos to my earlier post, it's not just the textbook publishers. Academic journals are also publishing papers with fake AI citations. www.aaronmiller.info/journals-are... And props to @andrew.heiss.phd for unlocking the "Rolling Stone on the CV" achievement!

I don’t think I can adequately stress how bad it is for a big publisher like Springer to screw up something like this. A new textbook of theirs had extensive hallucinated sources. www.aaronmiller.info/machine-lear... #ethics #ai

I don't know if it's because I'm finalizing grades this week, but I'm reflecting on a really smart thing I once heard Clayton Christensen say. Useful for all learners and teachers. www.aaronmiller.info/questions-ar...

Why are there are so many one-sentence paragraphs (entire posts of them!) in the substack world? Is it more engaging or just the natural result of learning to write from Twitter? I don't have anything against one-sentence paragraphs in principle, but I think they're for impact not entire articles.

I think giving someone AI is like giving them a bunch of money, and I wrote down some thoughts about that. www.aaronmiller.info/ai-is-a-magn...

Imagine being remembered both for DNA’s discovery and for being an intolerant, intolerable person.

Plenty of industries are getting stalked by AI right now. But if AI is the lioness, universities are the already-sickly members of the herd lamely trying to outrun her. (Also, I started a personal blog. It's 2008, apparently.) www.aaronmiller.info/ai-is-coming...

Evening light over an old dairy barn. Orick, CA #landscapephotography #fujufilm

The boss of Gold Bluffs #fujifilm #naturephotography

The end of the day. Trinidad harbor, CA #landscapephotography #fujifilm

Remember those posts in the morning? I had AI read all 286 and come up with a philosophy: substack.com/@johnfdicker...

I wrote about some good news: a UK charity that's combating homelessness with some extremely simple, straightforward interventions that use flexible, decentralized decision-making and treat people as people. Their approach showcases the importance of experimental and evidence-based public policy:

Autumn mountain, blue sky (looking north from Mt Timpanogos, UT) #fujifilm #landscapephotography

Autumn layers (Mt. Timpanogos, UT) #fujifilm #landscapephotography

Two shots from Saturday night. #iPhone17Pro #iPhonePhotography

You might have heard this before: “Choose a job you love, and you will never work a day in your life.” I think that's wrong, and misleading. #fromclasstoday

#fromclasstoday In a dilemma, it feels like you're choosing from a list of premade options. But that's not how decisions really work. The given options can almost certainly be improved. Making decisions means *making* them, like crafting an outcome that upholds what you value most.

The 8x on the iPhone 17 Pro is pretty great

Sea cave near Proposal Rock, Oregon. #landscape #fujifilm

How much do you know about the original Polaroid? (More from my Helping class today.) What most people don't know is that Polaroid was a pioneer in creating a workplace where people could flourish. These slides show the Two Aims of the company, and here's what these aims led to:

Are you flourishing? Are the people in your life flourishing? This week in my Helping Behavior class we're talking about how the only help we give that really matters is what helps someone flourish. So thinking about how people flourish makes us better helpers.

Thinking today about this description of healing from trauma that Rabbi Myers shared on an episode earlier this year. His synagogue, Tree of Life, suffered from a mass murder in their spiritual home almost 7 years ago.

Some of the best advice you'll ever get is to keep a list (in Notes on your phone) of people you go to for advice. I've taught business ethics for 18 years now, and I still turn to the people I trust to help me figure out hard decisions. We call it a CAM list: Counselors, Allies, and Mentors.

Instead of calling it assassination, I wish we would just call it murder. Because it's murder. - Melissa and Mark Hortman were murdered on June 14. - Charlie Kirk was murdered yesterday. "Assassination" amplifies the motive, urging us to pick sides. But the murderer is always on the wrong side.

I'd planned to share something else from my classes today, but because of the murder of Charlie Kirk that happened at UVU (not far from BYU and where my son is a student), I thought I should skip ahead. Here's what I tell my students at the end of the semester.

I'd planned to share something else from my classes today, but because of the murder of Charlie Kirk that happened at UVU (not far from BYU and where my son is a student), I thought I should skip ahead. Here's what I tell my students at the end of the semester.

The biggest mistake made by generous people? It's not being too generous. It's caring too much about giving, and not enough about the impact of your gift. Only 3% of donors actually research their giving. We make this mistake because giving feels good, so we focus on that instead of actual impact.

How do you find your own path to impact? I had the chance to talk about this question with my close friend and mentor Todd Manwaring on the Impact Innovations podcast. Having done three seasons of my own show, How to Help, I've learned that each of us will do it in our own, unique way.

More from class today (my Improving Helping Behaviors class): There's a name for the good feeling we get from seeing someone act kindly or with courage. The feeling is called Elevation, and it's in response to a thing called Moral Beauty. (It's so handy when something has a good name for it.)

I've been teaching for almost 20 years now, but I've never really shared what class is like. I had the thought this morning to share an idea or two from class. Follow along and I'll keep it going. Today in business ethics: ethical dilemmas and how they happen when good values come in conflict.

I’ve done this for 2 weeks now and it *absolutely rules*. Best class discussions I’ve ever had. Best engagement with readings. They write in this worksheet for 15 minutes, then talk about their responses in groups of 3-4, then groups share with the whole class, and *then* we talk about the readings

So this happened yesterday. 😄 Even with very little marketing, the show has been downloaded 20,002 times. I started How to Help as a passion project (which it still very much is!) and it's been one of my favorite things I've ever done. Each episode is timeless, so find the one that speaks to you!

The book title *Dangerous Love* ≠ tolerate abuse. It’s seeing humanity (Agape) while enforcing safety — leaving, calling police, or requiring treatment. Compassion can mean firm boundaries, not passivity. #Compassion #Boundaries

More Oregon coast pics, these ones from Proposal Rock. That first shot is with my son and his fiancé. Rainy day, but a gorgeous place. #landscapephotography #fujifilm

Oregon Coast trip to Lincoln City. I'd never been before and really loved it. Here are some of my favorite shots from the trip. #landscapephotography #fujifilm

Flaming Gorge, Utah. #landscapephotography #landscape #fujifilm

LLMs are basically alien technology. It's like we found this glowing thing in the desert and learned it can do all sorts of amazing stuff, but we don't really know how it works. And every day something weird happens. #ai #llm