Second Draft Labs
Patrick Dempsey, Adam PryorThe best ideas in AI & education, published in real time.
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How We Contribute to Anti-Intellectualism
Second Draft Labs: #0018
We publish the best ideas in AI and education, from the people doing the work.
We finally reached a total of 100 subscribers. The good news is, we aren’t trying to grow, really.
This publication is an ex...
Please, Don’t Write a Book
Second Draft Labs: #0017
We publish the best ideas in AI and education, from the people doing the work.
Don’t Write That Book
Here’s my thesis for this piece, and for a lot of the work that SDL is doing.
Collaborative volume...
The Persona Trap
There is a sentence near the middle of Tyton Partners’ new Time for Class 2026 report that does more work than the authors seem to want it to. Writing about the twin crises of cheating and empty seats, they observe that these are “symptoms...
I Asked ChatGPT to Review Our Newest Book
Second Draft Labs: #0015
We publish the best ideas in AI and education, from the people doing the work.
We are getting ready to launch Transparency & Reflection: Navigating Student + AI Work in Higher Education, the first volume...
The 7 Loops of Harness Engineering
Part 2 of 2 — Second Draft Labs
Part 1 traced how AI execution evolved from chaotic mega-prompts to the harness: a software system built around the model that manages context, sequences tasks, and keeps the AI’s desk clean. But know...
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