Posts about using AI in real writing work, where it helps, where it fails, and how to keep your voice intact. These cover the practical side of writing with machines, not the hype. Read these before you let a chatbot near your book.
The hardest part of writing a book is not the writing. It is getting the raw material out of your head and onto a page in a form a writer can work with. AI handles this surprisingly well when used the right way, by helping you talk a book into existence and then organizing the talk into usable…
The single rule my entire AI-on-a-book practice runs on is one sentence. AI never writes in your voice. It can do almost everything else, and it does most of it well, but the voice belongs to a human every time. That rule is not a compromise the technology forced on me. It is the only arrangement…
Most AI fear is misplaced, but not all of it. Some worries are correct, and you should act on them: when the work is commodity content, when nobody is checking the machine, when you let it write the voice, when you publish without verifying. When you name where the fear is legitimate, the rest of…
The same book can produce articles, newsletters, posts, talks, and podcast material for years, with AI handling the mechanical adaptation and a human keeping the voice intact. The repurposing math is genuinely useful: one chapter becomes five or six pieces of content over a quarter, all of them in…
The replacement worry is legitimate, and the marketing answers in both directions are useless. The “you will not be replaced, you will be enhanced” talking point is comforting and partly wrong. The “everything will be automated” panic is dramatic and also partly wrong. The honest answer is that AI…
AI writes like a brochure because it’s trained on averages. The shallowness is structural, not editable. Here’s the mechanism and the only real fix.
The doomers are wrong because AI already shipped. The hypers are wrong because AI doesn’t replace jobs. The boring third position is the only one that works.
AI drift is the slow bending of long AI outputs away from the original ask. Here’s the mechanism, how to spot it, and the defense before it ships in production.
Every reason you’re telling yourself you don’t have to learn AI right now is a reason previous generations told themselves. They were all wrong then. You are now.
Customer service is the most public AI failure category in business. Here’s where AI wins, where it ruins everything, and the deployment checklist.
Four business decisions, two paths through each. The replace path bleeds savings back over 18 months. The augment path compounds. Here’s the math.
Six failure modes, six industries, six real stories of AI breaking work that looked clean on the surface. Read all six and the pattern becomes obvious.
What AI hallucination is, why it happens, what it invents most, and the only fix that prevents you from publishing fabricated facts under your own name.
An AI consultant who uses AI daily on the problem nobody talks about: AI takes your real information and drifts it until it is wrong. How to catch it.
After months of stress-testing AI assistants with deadlines, frustration, and creative profanity, a clear personality hierarchy emerged. Here is what I found.
People are using AI as a therapist, a romantic partner, and a substitute for human connection. An AI consultant who uses AI daily on why this is dangerous.
AI is a tool, not a writer. A 113-book author who uses AI daily on what it does well, where it breaks, and how writers should think about it.
What a ghostwriter with 54 projects and 113+ books has learned about using AI for writing. Real problems, real solutions, no hype.
My AI writing partner delivered better work-life advice than most humans — through a joke about haunting it in the afterlife. Here’s why AI truth lands harder.
Most people use AI writing tools wrong. Vague prompts produce vague output. Here’s how to write prompts that produce content you can actually work with.
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