The Creative Brain on Drugs – Genius or Just Good Marketing?
A deep but honest dive into chemicals, creativity, and why the best ideas often come after midnight. The…
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AI Won’t Steal Your Job. But It Will Steal Your Excuses.
The AI panic is mostly about job loss. The real loss is more uncomfortable. AI is taking away…
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Where Did the Third Place Go (And Why Are Young Men Dating Chatbots)
A deeply-researched essay on the collapse of third places, the AI companion boom, the male loneliness epidemic, and…
Read moreI Trained an AI on My Writing for a Year. Here’s What It Stole.
A working writer's first-person account of feeding a year of essays into an AI model, watching it learn…
Read moreNotion vs Obsidian for Working Writers (And the Third Option Nobody Talks About)
A working writer's honest comparison of Notion, Obsidian, and the third option most writers eventually settle on but…
Read moreWhy Every Creative Person Feels Slightly Obsolete Right Now
An essay on AI, creative labor, the cheap-shiny replacement of taste, and why the human residue is what…
Read moreEverything Beautiful Is Becoming Content
The word "content" used to mean the stuff inside a container. Now it names the thing itself. A…
Read moreADHD Creatives and the Lie About Finishing Things
The common story is that ADHD brains can't finish. The historical record says different. Ten real creatives, what…
Read more1930s Canned Music vs 2026 AI Music – The Same Panic, Different Century
In 1930, the American Federation of Musicians took out newspaper ads begging the country to stop listening to…
Read moreThe AI Writing Tools I Actually Use – And the Ones I’ve Quietly Uninstalled
A working writer's review of Claude, ChatGPT, Sudowrite, Grammarly, Lex, NovelCrafter, and the other AI writing tools. What…
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