Our interfaces should facilitate prose-sculpting, meaning-architecting, memory-augmenting, and inspiration-harvesting—all grounded in sources we love and trust. Just as calculators shifted math from rote computation to conceptual exploration, AI can nudge creative work toward the things humans are uniquely good at: thinking and feeling deeply.

The more I use AI, the more I realize ignoring its creative potential is like dismissing the ‘90s internet as a porn delivery system.

At first, I saw using AI as a binary choice between soulless efficiency or becoming a luddite and preserving your authentic human creativity.

Over the last few months, Claude has become my dream creative partner, and I... See more

I pretty deliberately don't use tools that have AI built into them. I use specific AI tools for specific things. For example, I'm not a big fan of Notion with its built-in AI. I like to draft a piece in Obsidian or IA Writer. A piece I write starts on my Freewrite, which is a smart typewriter without an internet connection. I sit at that writing

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