Tag: writing
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A day in a life of the AI-assisted technical content writer
How a working day could look like for the AI-assisted content strategist and writer in an enterprise.
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Excited and exhausted: My honest take about life as a techwriter in the AI age
It’s the best of times, the worst of times. On the one hand, AI has accelerated my workflows and enabled me to create more content than before. On the other hand, I’m overwhelmed and burned out trying to keep up with how quickly the tech is changing and developing.
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My article was No.1 on Hacker News
To say that I didn’t expect this to happen is an understatement. But hey, achievement unlocked!
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Pangram in Substack? I’m so excited for the AI witch hunts
Pangram could spark an AI witch hunt, and increase bullying and harassment on Substack.
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July 2026: Lestat, OpenCode and the art of resting
Reflecting on my medical leave and how I’m catching up on dramas, learning how to use OpenCode, and catching up with personal writing projects despite my body’s demands that I do nothing.
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The key to my successful weekly planning system: Time blocking with Google Calendar and Google Tasks
My weekly productivity routine is anchored by Google Tasks, Calendar, and Google Workspace tools.
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Substack writers, you need a website!
Substack is convenient, but treat it as a distribution tool for your content. Your content should live on an independently owned website, which has a domain name you control and own. This way, you can secure long-term visibility and control over your digital presence on the Internet.
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Writing with AI isn’t always generating entire novels with a prompt
I’m often frustrated by the writing community’s misconceptions about AI in writing. I wish more writers were more open to AI’s potential in writing and stop crucifying those who dare to say they use AI.
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Why I use Mistral as my personal paid AI service
Claude is the “cool kid” of the retail AI services world. However, thanks to its snobbish attitude to some geographical locations, token limitations, and corporate ethos I ended up in the arms of Mistral. Why I use Mistral and why it honestly doesn’t matter how great the model is as long as it serves your…
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Reading Pu Songling’s “The Haunted House”
Pu Songling’s “Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio” are more than just ghost stories. They also serve as critiques of Qing Dynasty bureaucracy. With the help of an LLM “literature professor”, I explore the deeper insights of “The Haunted House”, one of the stories in the 300-year-old collection.
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How I conduct UX copy reviews
Sometimes the challenge of UX writing is not what to write, but how we write our copy. Here I share how I streamlined the UX copy review process for my team based on Dr. Katharina Grimm’s methods, aiming to reduce cognitive friction in UX writing.
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The Writing Community’s AI Panic
A New York Times article about Coral Hart, an indie romance author that generates 200 novels using AI has gotten most of the writing community clutching their pearls. Me? I’m just tired of this cycle of unproductive outrage.
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Does AI help you work faster or is it just hype?
Whether AI makes you more productive really depends on whether you know what the heck you’re doing.
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Fiction writing: What tasks will I outsource to AI?
Writing fiction with AI – most people think it’s letting AI generate the text, slapping it together into an e-book and publishing it. In this article I will show you that this is far from the truth, at least for me.
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What if using AI to write fiction isn’t an evil act?
My quest for more nuanced discussions about the use of AI in fiction writing.
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The cognitive debt of using AI to write essays
The way you use AI to write essays could change your brain. Simply put: It could make you more stupid.
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Digital gardens vs blogging: What’s the difference?
Digital gardens are a different way to present yourself on the Internet. Blogging is often see as a way to “brand yourself”. Digital gardens are less interested in marketing a personality but in sharing knowledge.
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My experience ‘going paid’ on Subastack in 2024
Last year, I activated the option for readers to pay me on a lark, and was surprised by what happened despite my very low expectations.
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