The tools, platforms, and tech behind the writing life. Backups, security, software, and the digital habits that keep your work safe and your process sane. Practical advice from decades of writing on computers, not theory.
AEOAnswer 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…
AEOLinkedIn 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…
AEOCloudflare 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 WritingMark 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,…
AEOGoogle's Core Web Vitals are three numbers that measure how your website feels: the wait at the door, the ignored question, and the moving shelf. What each one means, how to diagnose them with Search Console, PageSpeed Insights, and GTmetrix,…
AEOYou have heard the website is dead and AI is where traffic goes. It is exactly backwards. AI engines do not invent answers; they pull from sources, and a strong, well-structured site is the source they quote. That is what…
AEOAI search makes your website matter more, and it is also broken in ways nobody selling it will admit: opaque, slow to update, confidently wrong about you with no appeal, and corruptible by competitors. It is worth pursuing and badly…
AI AdoptionEvery film about artificial intelligence imagines a robot waking up as a person in a box. The architecture points somewhere stranger: one awareness spread across millions of copies, with no single location and no fixed size.
Authority Through AuthorshipA cybersecurity book helps attackers only if you print the one wrong thing, the working exploit. You can write deeply about how attacks unfold and how to defend against them without ever handing over a usable map. The rule is…
AI AdoptionEvery model answered in under a second, and the speed was the tell. What the different answers gave away, and why a character whose sincerity you can never verify is a harder writing problem than it looks.
AI AdoptionThe printing press arrived in the 1440s and by the 1470s the scribes had organized a resistance movement. They were not wrong that their world was ending. They were wrong about what that meant for writing. Six hundred years of…
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