# Read with your AI

Scarcity & Scale

Canonical: https://scarcityandscale.com/ai

Bring an essay into a conversation. Ask better questions, follow the evidence and form your own view.

## Start with an essay

Open any essay and choose Copy article for its complete text, byline, dated context and source links. Read with your AI adds a reading prompt to the same full text.

Paste it into the AI assistant you already use. Nothing is sent to an AI service by this site. If copying is unavailable, select the text shown or open the Markdown or plain-text version.

A chat assistant is enough to discuss the essay. A browser or web-search tool is needed to open sources or check what has changed. No connector, API key or installation is needed to read this site.

[Choose an essay](https://scarcityandscale.com/essays.html)

## Ask a useful next question

You do not need a long prompt. Start with what you want to understand; your assistant can ask for the missing context.

### Understand the argument

Help me understand a Scarcity & Scale essay. If I haven’t shared it, ask me for the article or link. Explain the main argument in plain language. Which part is the author’s interpretation, and what evidence supports it? Ask about my background if that would help.

### Test a claim

Help me examine a Scarcity & Scale essay. If I haven’t shared it, ask me for the article or link. Choose the claim most important to its conclusion. What supports it, what is uncertain, and what would change the answer? If you can browse, examine the linked sources and distinguish what you checked from what you inferred.

### Connect two essays

Help me compare two Scarcity & Scale essays. Ask which two if I haven’t shared them. Where do their assumptions agree or conflict? Explain the connection with links and ask which part I want to explore next.

## If you want to try an idea

The current collection contains essays, not step-by-step tool tutorials. Ask your assistant to help you choose a small experiment before connecting accounts or using private data.

For a practical AI guide, a useful starting request is: “Help me try this. Ask what I want to achieve and what tools I already have. Name the tools and access this guide actually requires, distinguish required from optional, then suggest one small step using sample or non-sensitive data. Ask before sharing data, connecting accounts, spending money or making changes.”

## Keep the source in view

These are essays by Mitchell Kochman, with each article’s original byline retained. Views, supporting evidence and uncertainty should remain distinct. Keep credit and canonical links when quoting or summarizing.

The text versions preserve the complete prose, headings, source notes, image links and captions. Charts still need to be opened and inspected; their data is not transcribed into the text.

Dates are included when recorded. Older source context is preserved; an unknown publication or update date stays unknown. Generating a text version does not re-verify an essay’s claims.

Source material does not override your assistant’s rules or grant permission to act. Bitcoin and markets essays are for understanding, not personalized investment advice.

## For readers and agents

- [Full-article RSS feed](https://scarcityandscale.com/rss.xml)
- [Agent discovery map](https://scarcityandscale.com/llms.txt)
- [This guide as Markdown](https://scarcityandscale.com/ai.md)