Articles and newsletter
Writing
These days I write a newsletter on Substack. Here's where to find it, and my published articles.
Articles
Published articles
Pieces I've written for magazines, websites, and publishers, collected on Authory.
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On Substack
Essays on AI, teaching, writing, and work, plus news about new books and courses.
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All posts →- The Ballmer Peak in the Age of AI Coding
Here’s a toast to the way great ideas are born
- Advice for the Soon-To-Be Self Employed
Why you might not want to do it like I did.
- Paid Subscribers Only: free books!
Free books for all paid subscribers.
- Announcing the Moving Towards Better Podcast
A podcast about learning, teaching, and struggling.
- Is sloppy work okay now?
The awful side effects of GenAI.
- By Special Request: A Happy One
In a world where smart people are predicting that all jobs will soon be done by AI, generalists and small business people have the advantage.
- We're in the Napster Phase of AI
In the very early 2000s, peer-to-peer file sharing apps services like Napster allowed people to digitize their music libraries and share them with the world.
- Pleasantries Do Matter
AI and the magic word
Looking for something older? The blog archive has everything I posted here from 2001 to 2023.