Go Flip Yourself: week4>13, 2025

newkid.ai - the age of agency - AGI - calm technology - seek friction - crazy stupid tech - internet walk

Mar 31, 2025

Every week, I intend to recap here what I’ve written and published myself on k7v.in and the best things I’ve watched, listened to, read.

You can expect stuff around life, culture, tech, parenting, street. Not specifically in that order obviously.

Last week on k7v.in

Earlier this year I wrote that 2025’s keyword would be ‘change’. Well, first quarter is now behind us, Spring starts and the least I can say: I’ve been through a lot of changes already (more details to come soon). So without further ado, below is a (long) list of things to check out. Enjoy.

Stuff worth checking out

👧👦 My other half -

Mathilde Baillet

- is launching her own project: a podcast + newsletter exploring the intersection of ‘parenthood x education x AI’ — I can’t reco. enough, it’s called: NewKid. And below is the first issue/ announcement.

NewKid

I am launching 'NewKid'

Hey there…

3 months ago · 11 likes · 2 comments · Mathilde Baillet

Talking about education from

Latham Turner

Building the Plane

Let's only teach what's worth knowing

I find myself moving more towards an unschooling theory of education every day. I suppose it was bound to happen, once I started really learning more schools and learning. At first I questioned the way schools taught, then I started questioning what they taught, and then I was left wondering what I believed is worth teaching…

5 months ago · 69 likes · 15 comments · Latham Turner

Building the Plane

What if we have it all backwards?

Subscribe to join as we explore what education could be and needs to be for our future. And to support a very special boy as he builds his dream airplane…

5 months ago · 23 likes · 22 comments · Latham Turner

Should this 👇 be the new education?

From childhood education to spirituality to interpersonal relationships, it’s critical that we learn how to instill and cultivate agency at every level. The systems we build and the choices we make today will determine whether technology serves to enhance our humanity or diminish it.

Catching Strays

The Age of Agency

This is the first of three essays about the technologist’s responsibility to change the world for the better – to create more of what they want to see in the world. This requires an understanding of one’s environment and the effects of their work, and a rootedness in core beliefs…

5 months ago · 43 likes · 6 comments · Jihad Esmail

Talking about AI:

The hidden cost of AI: trading long-term resilience for short-term efficiency
Already Happened
AGI isn't for happy people
warning: borderline chronically online…
Read more
5 months ago · 33 likes · 1 comment · Stefan Kelly

And its impact on current generations:

Kyla’s Newsletter

Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress

Generations are tricky to generalize as individual experiences are very different, especially in a country as big as the US. Still, broad patterns can offer insights into how technology and economic shifts shape generational identity and opportunity…

4 months ago · 652 likes · 63 comments · kyla scanlon

Written in 1996: The Coming Age of Calm Technology.

The important waves of technological change are those that fundamentally alter the place of technology in our lives. What matters is not technology itself, but its relationship to us.

Seek friction: