Category: Blog Life
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Borrowed Content: An Essay on AI and the Blank Page
I keep chewing on a thought: AI is built from ideas that already exist. When a person uses it to brainstorm, they are starting from borrowed content: low effort, low ownership, reductive. So I dug into brainstorming science, a couple of studies and past professional experiences including a silly game called Zip Zap Zop, to…
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It’s time to talk about my decision to start taking a GLP1
I’ve been on Wegovy for 10 weeks now. Here’s the honest version: the blood pressure drop, the lost hunger cues, the constipation nobody warns you about, and why it took me years of saying no before I said yes.
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AI is ruining Pinterest
Pinterest used to be part of the team that helped me plan our 1/2-story remodel. A year later, every search for bookshelves or workout spaces returns AI slop: plants growing through shelving, dumbbells that don’t exist, posters with unreadable text. Here’s why I think the platform is being ruined, what a 2008 Mary Meeker keynote…
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10 Lessons from a post-sabbatical, unemployed person
Eight months of unemployment will teach you things about yourself that a decade of 9-to-5 never could. Some lessons were expected. Some were not (the gym one especially). Here are 10 honest things I’ve learned from being home, being unemployed, and figuring out what comes next.
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Locking down my digital life
Headlines are plentiful about the digital surveillance of our government on immigrants, activists and constitutional observers as part of Operation Metro Surge. We are being watched and the to-do of locking things down can no longer just sit on my to-do list. I’m also someone who is currently unemployed — so I do have more…
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