Writing and AI
Trey tells a story that maps this perfectly. He spent decades playing through a rig he built in 1986, shaping the sound fans know as him and his band, Phish. In 2016 he went on a wild tone optimization pilgrimage, testing every permutation he could find in search of something sharper. But all that experimenting only pushed him deeper into wanting... See more
The Hero’s Journey Back to Your Own Sound
My contribution to beehiiv’s state of newsletters report. The newsletters that achieve product-audience fit will become multimodal and do many of the same things regular media companies do. The… |...
linkedin.comEveryone’s got a prompt. Everyone’s got ChatGPT. And everyone thinks… | Scott Smith | 165 comments
Scott Smithlinkedin.comSurprise as a product; optimisation erodes surprise
When everyone has access to the same polishing tool, we risk a kind of digital invisibility—millions of pieces of content, all professionally adequate, none memorable.
Katie Parrott • How to Keep Your Writing Weird in the Age of AI
How to write a prompt is a skill. Hint: Don't be vague. A vague question… | David Hieatt | 14 comments
David Hieattlinkedin.comWhen it’s producing text, AI pulls everything toward the statistical center. Sometimes the center is exactly where you want to be. But sometimes the edges are where the interesting stuff lives.