What are the incentives to think for ourselves now that we are starting to outsource thinking to machines? Will the long-term effect of ChatGPT on our brains be similar to the impact of fast food on our bodies? The more I use ChatGPT to help me write, the more I feel my brain getting flabby […]
This is Your Brain on AI
Originally published in May 2023 in Blog
AI and Eureka
Originally published in March 2023 in Blog
Content Relief Supplements
Originally published in February 2023 in Blog
ChatGPT Won’t Be Writing To My Valentine
Originally published in January 2023 in Blog
If you haven’t read Ann Handley’s newsletter this week, here it is. She wrote it herself. Actually, she brought her full self, past and present, to this rumination on AI’s breakout moment. Ann probably had to tie her hair back while she was writing — now that she has grown out her pixie. And maybe […]
The gambler
Originally published in April 2015 in Blog
Back in the fall of 1999, this quote by Richard Ford in The Globe and Mail seemed important enough to scribble down. Translation: it rocked my little whitebread world which, true to form, consisted of Enya, getting lost in Kenny G’s mane, Mac matte lipstick and a shiny black Nissan Pathfinder. “My view of writers […]
