work AI is bullsh*t but so is everything else. If AI is coming for our jobs, why aren’t we saying “yes! please, take them!”?
midlife Another Life Is Possible Life is messy. And sometimes you're still tidying up years later after learning early on that being yourself isn't safe.
real talk I thought I'd be somewhere else by now. I'm not thriving. I'm just surviving. And that's OK.
AI Is My Jaw Harp Teacher I use AI every day to enhance my creativity And note that I said enhance — not do the work. There’s a lot of ballyhoo and hand-wringing around “AI is replacing artists and creativity.” Some of that is justified. But remember how quickly the AI-generated action figures trend got old?
Newsletter What Has Reading Done for Me Reading started when I was a kid. Reading took me away from a boring existence in the middle of nowhere. There’s rural and then there’s where I grew up. Reading gave me friends when I didn’t have any in real life. It gave me ideas, made me