Designing Intelligence
Jason PruntyDesigning Intelligence is a publication about creating knowledge systems that improve with use. I discuss shifting from hunting answers to cultivating insight over time, designing surfaces and feedback loops where humans and machines learn together.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Monthly |
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| Issues | 19 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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The Wrong Game: Why AI Needs Dungeon Masters, Not Proctors
A 133-year reversal
This month, Princeton’s faculty voted, with only one dissent, to end one of the oldest experiments in American higher education. Beginning July 1, professors will sit in exam rooms and watch students take tests. The...
From Impact to Change: The Evolution Most Nonprofits Never Make
On our first Zoom call, Ellen Marshall said something that I asked her to explain: “Impact is not the same as change.” That led to an hour-long conversation. She puts nonprofit work on a spectrum, impact on one end, change on the other. I u...
The Personalization Trap: Why AI Means Shared-Ground Must Be Designed
Every useful tool creates a small coordination problem. The person who adopts it first gets faster. The people around them get a little harder to work with. Usually the gap closes as everyone catches up. With AI personalization, it may not...
Mission Surfaces: The Design Shift Nonprofits Can’t Afford to Ignore
This post was developed in collaboration with Fabrik Labs, whose work with 4MyCiTy offered a rare, real-world lens into what mission-centered technology can actually look like.
There’s a concept hiding in plain sight inside every no...
From Efficiency to Mission: What the AI Revolution Actually Needs
Something strange is happening to the economics of purpose.
Andreessen Horowitz just released their Big Ideas for 2026, and as one recap put it, “AI is becoming the execution layer of the economy.” Systems that act. Infrastructure built fo...
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Product designer, systems thinker, and founder of Designing Intelligence. With a background in engineering, art, and architecture, I explore how AI reshapes knowledge creation—and how we can design environments where insight emerges and scales.
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