Writing is power — Delightful

Preview	Record	Issue
	28 slightly rude notes on writing “If you want that perfect brush stroke or that exquisite shot, then you have to squeeze your neurons until they scream.” Creative advice Writing is power	#183
	If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you “Nice little personal essay you’ve got there, lady, but I know what you really are; time to get my knife out, time to start digging around under your skin until I find the wires.” Writing is power AI perspectives	#183
	After AI stole his clients, one Big Tech ghostwriter is using AI to get them back “What can the future look like for me?” Writing is power AI perspectives Better at Work	#182
	On the existential terror of AI-generated music “What does this say about us, that we so passively acquiesce? Are we not the valiant knights, the truth-tellers, the beauty-makers, who journey to the dark side, slay the dragon, and bring back the dripping treasure? Are we not the guardians of the world’s soul?” Writing is power	#181
	Developing creative identity “A better question for any creative person is: what activities do you want to pursue? What kinds of understanding will that create?” Creative advice Writing is power	#181
	Writers Are Going to Extremes to Prove They Didn’t Use AI “I’ll use aggressively casual language, like, ‘hey yo, for real,’ or drop a bunch of exclamation point” Writing is power	#181
	AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think “Machine-generated text reads as smooth and polished, but it loses the meanders, interruptions and leaps of logic that communicate emotion.” Writing is power AI perspectives	#180
	Anti-Dystopia “That is anti-dystopian action at its core: doing what makes the world more human, even when you cannot prove it matters in the grand scheme.” Creative advice Writing is power	#180
	An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction “As dry as ... my humor?” Writing is power	#180
	Why writing still wins “There's a referendum on the value of writing, and writing is winning.” Writing is power	#179
	The Profession That Does Not Exist “Young man, you don't understand. You've chosen a profession that doesn't exist.” Writing is power	#179
	The Narrative is the Business “A Substack post exploring how narrative and business strategy intersect in modern organizations” Writing is power	#179
	The Great Flattening: Corporate AI Language and Brand Voice Opportunity “Corporate America is converging on a single voice. The brands that opt out will own the next decade.” Writing is power Brand strategy	#178
	We'll soon find out what is truly special about human writing “a willingness to stand behind words, to mean them, and to accept the consequences of having claimed to have written them.” Writing is power AI perspectives	#178
	How I learned to just fucking write “That pattern would follow me through my creative life until I found a way to write or make art that allowed me to bypass my inner critic.” Creative advice Writing is power	#178
	American Time Use Survey “Rates of daily reading for pleasure have declined over the past 20 years in the US” Writing is power	#177
	Using AI makes writing more bland, study finds “The LLMs are pushing the essays away from anything that a human would have ever written” Creative advice Writing is power AI perspectives	#176
	Why wouldn't you use AI to publish a book ?? “What does it mean that to publish a book with as little labor as possible is the system working at its efficient best?” Writing is power	#176
	Andy Weir on Writing the Hit Book Behind the Movie ‘Project Hail Mary’ “There are two kinds of writers. The ones who admit they read all the reviews and the ones who don’t admit that they read all the reviews.” Creative advice Writing is power	#175
	The Science of Why AI Still Can't Write Like You “Most people are wildly inconsistent writers.” Writing is power AI perspectives	#175
	AI Style Guides: How to Help AI Write Like You “It takes what you know instinctively about your own writing and makes it legible for a machine to use.” Writing is power AI perspectives	#175
	Should you write a Substack instead of a book? “For many authors, particularly those with a pre-existing platform to work from, hustling to convert a new newsletter subscriber is likely much more profitable (again, on a single-customer basis) than working on a new book.” Writing is power	#174
	The Science of Why AI Still Can’t Write Like You “Most people are wildly inconsistent writers.” Writing is power AI perspectives	#174

28 slightly rude notes on writing

“If you want that perfect brush stroke or that exquisite shot, then you have to squeeze your neurons until they scream.”

Creative advice
Writing is power

#183

If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you

“Nice little personal essay you’ve got there, lady, but I know what you really are; time to get my knife out, time to start digging around under your skin until I find the wires.”

Writing is power
AI perspectives

#183

After AI stole his clients, one Big Tech ghostwriter is using AI to get them back

“What can the future look like for me?”

Writing is power
AI perspectives
Better at Work

#182

On the existential terror of AI-generated music

“What does this say about us, that we so passively acquiesce? Are we not the valiant knights, the truth-tellers, the beauty-makers, who journey to the dark side, slay the dragon, and bring back the dripping treasure? Are we not the guardians of the world’s soul?”

Writing is power

#181

Developing creative identity

“A better question for any creative person is: what activities do you want to pursue? What kinds of understanding will that create?”

Creative advice
Writing is power

#181

Writers Are Going to Extremes to Prove They Didn’t Use AI

“I’ll use aggressively casual language, like, ‘hey yo, for real,’ or drop a bunch of exclamation point”

Writing is power

#181

AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think

“Machine-generated text reads as smooth and polished, but it loses the meanders, interruptions and leaps of logic that communicate emotion.”

Writing is power
AI perspectives

#180

Anti-Dystopia

“That is anti-dystopian action at its core: doing what makes the world more human, even when you cannot prove it matters in the grand scheme.”

Creative advice
Writing is power

#180

An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction

“As dry as ... my humor?”

Writing is power

#180

Why writing still wins

“There's a referendum on the value of writing, and writing is winning.”

Writing is power

#179

The Profession That Does Not Exist

“Young man, you don't understand. You've chosen a profession that doesn't exist.”

Writing is power

#179

The Narrative is the Business

“A Substack post exploring how narrative and business strategy intersect in modern organizations”

Writing is power

#179

The Great Flattening: Corporate AI Language and Brand Voice Opportunity

“Corporate America is converging on a single voice. The brands that opt out will own the next decade.”

Writing is power
Brand strategy

#178

We'll soon find out what is truly special about human writing

“a willingness to stand behind words, to mean them, and to accept the consequences of having claimed to have written them.”

Writing is power
AI perspectives

#178

How I learned to just fucking write

“That pattern would follow me through my creative life until I found a way to write or make art that allowed me to bypass my inner critic.”

Creative advice
Writing is power

#178

American Time Use Survey

“Rates of daily reading for pleasure have declined over the past 20 years in the US”

Writing is power

#177

Using AI makes writing more bland, study finds

“The LLMs are pushing the essays away from anything that a human would have ever written”

Creative advice
Writing is power
AI perspectives

#176

Why wouldn't you use AI to publish a book ??

“What does it mean that to publish a book with as little labor as possible is the system working at its efficient best?”

Writing is power

#176

Andy Weir on Writing the Hit Book Behind the Movie ‘Project Hail Mary’

“There are two kinds of writers. The ones who admit they read all the reviews and the ones who don’t admit that they read all the reviews.”

Creative advice
Writing is power

#175

The Science of Why AI Still Can't Write Like You

“Most people are wildly inconsistent writers.”

Writing is power
AI perspectives

#175

AI Style Guides: How to Help AI Write Like You

“It takes what you know instinctively about your own writing and makes it legible for a machine to use.”

Writing is power
AI perspectives

#175

Should you write a Substack instead of a book?

“For many authors, particularly those with a pre-existing platform to work from, hustling to convert a new newsletter subscriber is likely much more profitable (again, on a single-customer basis) than working on a new book.”

Writing is power

#174

The Science of Why AI Still Can’t Write Like You

“Most people are wildly inconsistent writers.”

Writing is power
AI perspectives

#174