I did something a little impulsive. 😂 I've been seeing so much conversation lately about the so-called "AI witch hunts." People getting attacked for using generative AI. People getting accused of using AI when they haven't. Creators feeling afraid to share their work because someone might decide it looks AI-generated. And, of course, plenty of people who absolutely LOVE AI and are using it to create things they never imagined possible. There's a lot of fear, frustration, excitement, and...
12 days ago • 1 min read
Aside: I've been composing this newsletter in my head for a few days now and finally sat down to write it. I'd brain dumped my thoughts using a voice memo and took the transcript from my thoughts. It wasn't a dictation of what I wanted to write in the newsletter. It was the thoughts I had about the reading itself. So when I decided to see if an LLM could write the newsletter for me while on the go, I got so mad at the output. It was not AT ALL like how I'd been drafting it in my head. I...
13 days ago • 3 min read
A few weeks ago, my mother-in-law handed me a stack of pillows she wasn't using anymore. I took them home without thinking much of it. The following Sunday, she saw them sitting out at my place and told me, in Serbian, where they'd come from. One of them, her own mother had embroidered. I understood every word. I'm still learning the language, and that day, it landed. That pillow moment turned into something bigger: the same question I've been sitting with for years, long before "human...
4 months ago • 1 min read
Some of my most productive moments happen when I'm so focused that time disappears. I love when that happens. What I'm noticing lately is that working with Claude creates its own rhythm. I'll set it on a task that takes a few minutes to process. While it works, I could open two more tasks and start bouncing between them. Sometimes that works. Sometimes I end up scattered, getting less done than if I'd just waited. What's been working better: I step away from the computer entirely. Yesterday I...
4 months ago • 1 min read
Last evening, my husband and I went for a walk. Along the way, an elderly neighbor asked for help picking cherries from his tree. Long story short, we ended up with over a gallon of cherries and I had the opportunity to figure out what to do with them. It gave me a taste of what seasonal living is really like. I grew up having everything available year round at supermarkets. I often wonder about what life was like before modern conveniences. What did people do? Well, when your neighbor's...
4 months ago • 1 min read
I finished a book last night that made me mad. And I mean that in the best possible way. Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke had a premise I couldn't resist: a tradwife influencer forced to actually live in 1855. As someone who believes the past holds real wisdom worth recovering, I was curious. I wanted to see an author take that question seriously. She didn't. And I've been sitting with why that bothers me so much. I also wasn't expecting to end up disappointed in Anne Hathaway. You don't need...
5 months ago • 1 min read
Last week, I talked about my excitement to try out building with Claude. I built two full apps that actually work! (If you're interested in trying them out, let me know, would love feedback) And I mentioned at the end how my neck hurt. Well, it got worse. I spent that whole weekend resting because it literally hurt to move my head. And on top of that, I had my monthly reminder to slow down — the kind that comes whether you're ready for it or not. I find that when I actually honor that time in...
6 months ago • 1 min read
Heyo, I thought I might share some rougher thoughts and experiences with you. The more I work with LLMs, the more I see the signatures of LLM-speak in the posts and content I read. I use it, obviously, and I'm finding it so refreshing to human-written stuff. Both are true! And I do believe we can create beautifully human things with AI assistance. I use different AI tools for different purposes. I use both ChatGPT and Claude. And I always have. I've found that they're great at different...
6 months ago • 1 min read
There's a moment that happens for a lot of us before we're fully awake. Before we've had water, before we've looked out the window, before we've noticed how we actually feel. We reach for our phone. I've done it many times. And for a long time I didn't think much of it. It's just what you do. But lately I've been sitting with a question that's hard to shake: what was I doing before that became automatic? What was I reaching toward before I started reaching for a screen? I've been thinking a...
7 months ago • 2 min read