Ideas Not Words
A personal account of how the book came to be — a project that began as a question about working with AI and became a theory of writing itself, arguing you should separate the durable idea from the disposable words.
The Slop Problem
AI produces "slop" (statistically average, fluent but hollow writing) not as a model failure but as an insight failure. Genuine originality requires standing at an uncrossed frontier that AI, trained entirely on the past, cannot structurally reach.
The State of TTS: early 2025
Where AI speech synthesis stands in early 2025: hands-on test results, and why realistic text-to-speech is already displacing professional voice talent.
The Work of Writing in the Age of AI
We are on the cusp of entering an exciting new era in the realm of writing, which I refer to as the third stage, AI-collaborated writing.
The Work of Writing in the Age of AI
“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” — Marshall McLuhan
Atlas · Topics
“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” — Marshall McLuhan
Atlas · People
“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” — Marshall McLuhan
Atlas · Concepts
“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” — Marshall McLuhan
Atlas
“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” — Marshall McLuhan
Tabwriting and the future of writing technology
A 2011 essay placing handwriting on the iPad — 'tabwriting' — within the long history of writing technologies, from pen and paper to the keyboard.