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I am dissatisfied when I ask ChatGPT or Claude.ai to write something for me. The writing has no life, no flair. It’s repeating patterns it’s been trained on, and the result is a pretty good imitation, but the voice is tinny and robotic. Anyone exploring AI has

This video from Adrian on a daily photography practice is worth watching. Though it’s about photography it applies to nearly any skill we could hope to improve. As an amateur photographer I’ve found incredible joy in capturing images of the world around me. On my daily runs I’

A product designer is someone who knows how to digest a problem and think through it, then come up with solutions that can be tested. They, of course, use various tools and methods to accomplish this. User research, low and high-fidelity ideation, coding or not, prototyping or not, and a

Apple’s sleep tracking features have been pushing in this direction for a while, and the addition of sleep apnea detection last fall really pushed it over the edge. You don’t have to wear your Apple Watch overnight, but Apple really wants you to. … Surprisingly, having the watch on

In all the talk of AI and using it for thinking and writing, a crucial element is often missed. For every word that’s written there are untold thoughts run through are heads to process the final output. This may be less true in some media, such as a quick

Tapbacks are useful. It’s hard to imagine a world without them. But they’re also an easy excuse for not engaging—why send a thoughtful response when an exclamation or thumbs up will suffice? I’m glad we have them, and glad that they’ve been extended to emoji.

[…] I think that means changing how we think about AI not as a tool but a collaborative partner who can bring the full weight and might of human knowledge, thinking frameworks, research methods, and enhanced synthesis to every user. Whereas I used to see AI as a gimmick and then

Apple continues to push the edges of what can be done with accesibility—and I applaud them for it. Vehicle Motion Cues, which can help reduce motion sickness when riding in a moving vehicle, comes to Mac, along with new ways to customize the animated onscreen dots on iPhone, iPad,

You are not broken. You are not invisible. You are not your job search. You're still here. You’re still whole. You are not your job search! Not today. Not ever. The last lines of a beautiful piece (poem?) by Greg on the state of the world, finding