AI doesn't just save time. It raises the ceiling of what the same effort produces. Will we accept the old baseline or push for the higher bar?
In the age of slop, readers test authenticity. I lace posts with subliminal sincerity — the ampersand, neologisms, grammatical plumes, mimicry. Then AI edits it all. I've never had a ghost writer, but I did have a human editor. Was that any different?
Why AI editorial councils fail & what makes writing authentic in an age of machine-generated prose.
A blog post about AI promotions triggered the highest unsubscription rate in this blog's history - a four-sigma statistical event expected once in 15,787 posts.
John McPhee's four-draft writing method transforms chaotic ideas into compelling narratives. Learn why the best writing happens when you separate creative thinking from critical evaluation.
GEPA (Generative Pareto optimization) revolutionizes AI writing by discovering multiple optimal posts across quality dimensions rather than chasing a single score. Learn how this efficient frontier approach produces better content strategy.
