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Renaissance Rachel

Your internal authority is calling.

For people who are done letting outside voices — technology, experts, cultural noise — drown out their own. Every issue explores how to reclaim your discernment, your body awareness, and your creative authority across the parts of life that matter most: technology, relationships, wellness, work, and creativity.

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Are LLMs the latest way for writers to disqualify themselves?

AI slop. That's a term we're hearing more and more. I don't remember hearing the word "slop" all that often before. Now it's sneaking in everywhere as more and more AI generated content makes its way to the internet. Slop is what pigs eat. A nice connotation isn't it? I've been grappling with how much to use generative AI in my workflow for years now. And one of the most obvious and common uses is for writing. I've written before about how I entered a contest that forbade using AI in the...

about 22 hours ago • 4 min read

I am a high-achieving individual. A recovering perfectionist, who didn't know she was a perfectionist until recently. I’ve had a lot of starts and stops with my writing journey, so I decided to try what a goal-oriented person might find helpful: I decided to enter writing contest to give myself a deadline and produce a final work that I could be proud that I accomplished. I had a concept that I felt REALLY excited about, but it was something I had no experience with. It was in the modeling...

6 days ago • 3 min read
Image of a phone screen with an AI chatbot and a caption saying "The rise of AI companions"

Have you ever noticed that when you talk to ChatGPT, Claude, or any other large language model, they're always cheerful by default and go out of their way to please you? This behavior is by design. The creators of the chat interfaces where they deploy the AI models WANT you to stay engaged and talking. What about when someone particularly lonely or vulnerable interacts with one of these chat interfaces? The startling truth is that these AI chatbots have no context or awareness for what is...

6 months ago • 1 min read