Alex Dobrenko

I use Claude.ai mostly for research, the way I used to use a search engine before it returned mostly spam.

I have never ever used AI to generate text in place of my “voice”. No emails. No sentences in my articles or books or even comments. Nothing pretending to be me.

I enjoy the challenge of writing myself. It’s organized thinking. It’s the doing... See more

“Often, depressed people say they don’t want to go out with their friends,” says Salamone. But it’s not that they don’t experience pleasure, he says – if their friends were around, many depressed people could have fun.

“Low levels of dopamine make people and other animals less likely to work for things, so it has more to do with motivation and... See more

Everyone seemed to want a story from me, too — a neat, simple sentence or two that distilled our inconceivable relationship into a digestible anecdote, perhaps from which we might all learn a valuable lesson. Correlation, causation. Beginning, middle, satisfying end.