There’s a part of my working day that produces nothing. No words appear. No draft moves forward. To an outside observer, and occasionally to me, it looks indistinguishable from not working. I’m making coffee I don’t especially need. I’m looking…

I’ve been writing about AI and content for long enough now to have seen the full ecosystem of takes cycle through multiple times. The same arguments, the same framings, the same conclusions, occasionally wearing a different hat. This is a…

Let me tell you about a folder on my desktop called “Published.” It’s gloriously tidy. A curated archive of ideas that survived contact with my better instincts. A highlight reel. A source of mild professional pride. Now let me tell…

There’s a particular reading experience that’s hard to describe precisely. You finish an article. You understood all of it. Nothing was wrong. And yet you feel vaguely like you’ve just eaten a meal that was nutritionally complete and completely joyless.…

If you’re a writer who’s read three articles this week about AI taking your job, you’ve probably felt that low hum of dread that settles somewhere between your shoulder blades and your coffee mug. I get it. I’ve felt it…

I’ve been writing professionally for about twenty years. That’s long enough to have outlasted several trends, a handful of employers and at least one complete reinvention of what “content” is supposed to mean. People don’t usually ask whether I still…