Writing & Thinking
Prompting, writing, memory, and whether the model is telling you the truth.
85 posts
- Newsletter SoN 2.30: Which of your AI's rules are still doing a job?
- Insight From Custom Code to Conversational Prompts
- Insight The Donkey Work Doesn't Need a Genius
- Insight Rehearse the Deck You Didn't Write
- Insight Kimi K3 Is Open. I Still Can't Run It.
- Insight "AI Found a Security Bug" Is the Wrong Headline
- Insight Hubble, and the Assumption Baked Into a Notes App Now
- Insight Stop Guessing Whether AI Is Coming for Your Job. Ask the Data.
- Field Note Field Note: Tell AI What You Want and Who You Are
- Newsletter SoN 2.28: "That's good, how can we make it better?"
- Field Note Field Note: Paperwork Shot List
- Newsletter SoN 2.27: I Just Talked With Someone Else's Vault
- Field Note Field Note: The model of the week changes by Thursday
- Field Note Field Note: Where You Keep the Final Say
- Newsletter SoN 2.25: Stop guessing and use AI to pull the data
- Newsletter SoN 2.24: AI hasn't made me faster
- Field Note Field Note: What I Automate with AI
- Newsletter SoN 2.22: How do you choose "the best" AI tool?
- Field Note Measure twice, cut once — with two AIs
- Newsletter SoN 2.21: AI doesn't know when to stop. You have to.
- Newsletter SoN 2.19: It's 10pm. Do you know what your agents are doing? (Free)
- Newsletter SoN 2.18: Where can I skill up on AI? (Free Edition)
- Newsletter SoN 2.16: Ask your AI what it can already do (Free Edition)
- Newsletter SoN 2.15: Ask your AI to Ask You Questions (Free Edition)
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 14: What about everything we learned? (Free Edition)
- Insight Context Is the New Bottleneck. So Is Judgment.
- Insight You Feel Faster. Are You?
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 13: Are your tools deciding how you think? (Free Edition)
- Insight The Promises Failed, Not the Technology
- Insight Microsoft's Copilot Now Uses Two Models to Fact-Check One
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 12: The Yes Machine (Free Edition)
- Insight Mozilla Built Stack Overflow for Agents. I Built It by Hand.
- Insight 4.4 Million People Just Watched the Sycophancy Problem in Action
- Insight Perplexity Is Learning What I Learned Six Months Ago
- Insight When Knuth Writes a Paper About You
- Insight The Confident Answer Isn't Always the Right One
- Insight WordPress Just Opened the Floodgates
- Insight MIT Found a Math Fix for AI Overconfidence. I Found a Behavioral One.
- Insight Perplexity Wants Your Blood Pressure Data
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 10: Same Prompt, Different Model, Worse Results (Free)
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 9: The Mirror and the Telescope (Free)
- Insight Stop Wrapping Failed Systems in AI
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 6: The Talking Wrench
- Insight Everyone's Sharing 'Something Big Is Happening.' Here's What They Leave Out.
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 5: My AI Declined to Join Moltbook. Here's Why.
- Insight 150,000 API Keys Leaked. Anyone Surprised?
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 2: The Art of Breaking Things Down
- Newsletter SoN Vol 2, Issue 1: Stop Prompting Better. Start Programming Your Gaps.
- Newsletter SoN 34: What Will You Vibe Code Next Year?
- Newsletter SoN 33: The Questions I'm Asking My AI Before the New Year
- Newsletter SoN 31: The AI Productivity Treadmill
- Newsletter SoN 30: Four Questions That Fix Your Prompts
- Newsletter SoN 29: The Godfather of AI’s Warning Isn't What You Think It Is
- Newsletter SoN 26: The System of Building Your AI Style Guide
- Newsletter SoN 25: Writing With AI Isn't Cheating — It's an Accessibility Tool
- Newsletter SoN 23: One Year of Writing About AI
- Newsletter SoN 22: How to Write AI Instructions That Actually Work
- Insight How AI Changed My Build vs. Buy Process
- Insight Why I Moved My Newsletter to Wednesdays (And You Should Optimize Your Timing Too)
- Insight GPT-5 Reality Check: Why Your Framework Matters More Than the Latest Model
- Insight Your AI Assistant Is a Yes-Man (And Why That's Dangerous)
- Insight How to Spot AI Generated Text
- Insight Why Your AI Prompts Aren’t Working (And How to Fix Them)
- Insight “Zero Effort” AI is a Myth, and It’s Holding Us Back
- Insight Stop Writing Prompts, Start Building AI Assistants
- Insight How to Talk to AI (and Actually Get What You Want)
- Insight Real Stories: AI Success in Content Management
- Insight Digital Resilience: From Concept to Award-Winner in 48 Hours
- Insight One Shortcut Is Worth More Than Ten Assistants
- Insight Could a 4-Day Work Week Be Your Future?
- Insight The Landscape of Available AI Tools
- Insight Boost Your Creative Writing with Local AI Models
- Insight Transformative Imagery at Your Fingertips
- Insight From the Turing Test to Humanity's Last Exam: How We Measure AI
- Insight How to Get the Best Out of ChatGPT: The Art of Effective Prompting
- Insight AI Voice Cloning and Video Generation Are Revolutionizing Content Creation
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #012: AI web search, OpenAI's Whisper, Qwen AI and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #011: Notes on DeepSeek, revisiting Make.com automations and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #010: Photorealistic images in MidJourney, creative AI predictions for the next 5 years, AI tool of the week and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #009: A Jim-GPT to make your prompt creation easier, testing OpenAI's text-to-video model and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #005: Perplexity tips, BYO Buffer and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #004: First AI services available, Notion Marketplace and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #003: Updates on Perplexity, Claude’s Anthropic, reflections on creating my “digital twin” and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #002: Automating content creation and sharing, rethinking search and more.
- Newsletter 💾 The Download #001: New product launch, retooling the tech stack and more.