AI changed writing whether writers wanted it to or not. These articles cover what that actually means for the people who write for a living and the people who hire them. Where AI helps, where it quietly ruins the work, and how to use it without handing over your voice.
AI and WritingSeptember 1, 2026
A new client arrived with 45,000 words she had bought from an AI service. She still hired a ghostwriter, because the tool never supplies the material. The story was in her. The manuscript was around it.
AI and WritingAugust 28, 2026
Stanley Druckenmiller used AI to write a Wall Street Journal op-ed and admitted it. The argument that followed was about disclosure, and disclosure was never the question. Ghostwriting settled this a century ago: authorship lives in having the thought, not…
AI and WritingAugust 21, 2026
Four guests from unrelated fields arrived at the same conclusion within weeks: AI works when it removes drudgery and fails when it removes the person. Applied to books, that line is easy to draw.
AI and WritingAugust 21, 2026
An AI writes the average of what everybody else wrote, which makes it structurally incapable of producing a profile that stands out. Use it as an advisor and never as the author.
AEOAugust 12, 2026
A hundred blog posts feel like more than one book. To an answer engine, it is the reverse. A book is one signal it can verify. A hundred posts are noise it cannot attribute.
AEOAugust 11, 2026
A third of my new business this year came because ChatGPT recommended me by name. The reason it picks some experts and ignores others is not luck. It is authority it can read.
AI and WritingAugust 9, 2026
The August 9, 2026 episode in full: the comic-strip wall, 113+ and 54+ in 12 years, Trader Joe's central office, the quarter-million defragmenter lesson, Socratic ghostwriting interviews, Hannibal and Josephus, AEO canon rules, ADHD hyperfocus and Crazytown, and follow the…
AEOAugust 4, 2026
Answer engines have a problem. They have to decide who to name, and almost everything they can read about you was written by you. A book is the only thing you make that gets independently recorded by organizations with no…
AEOJuly 31, 2026
LinkedIn added an option on July 30 letting members flag posts as AI slop, and removed its own AI writing tool the same day. It arrived alongside studies putting AI content on the platform anywhere between 41 and 81 per…
AI and WritingJuly 30, 2026
Mark Zuckerberg argues in the Wall Street Journal that superintelligence should be widely distributed, and builds the case on a thought experiment about lawyers. The argument holds in a courtroom, where a judge must decide. It breaks on a bookshelf,…
AEOJuly 30, 2026
Cloudflare found human traffic down at least 35 per cent across every major industry in under a year, and more than half of all internet traffic is now non-human. This week I filtered my own site properly and checked the…
AI and WritingJuly 21, 2026
Anthropic settled for $1.5 billion over pirated books. The court found the acquisition was the problem, not the training, and that distinction is the one that matters to anyone who writes as someone else. What it changes for the ghostwriting…
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