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My bad.
It was today that I found out just how much I’ve contributed to various LLMs. If you hate the way AI writing sounds, you’ll probably hate my books. And the whole em dash thing is seriously my fault. Click here to see how much you taught AI to write! Continue reading
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Dogshit
In the late 80s, a manager at Microsoft named Paul Maritz sent an email to a colleague suggesting they “eat their own dogfood.” What he meant was that LAN Manager, a product he oversaw, should get more internal use. How could they build a tool that others trusted if they didn’t trust it themselves? The… Continue reading
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Humazon
Two of my favorite authors growing up were Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene, authors of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books. I read everything I could get my hands on from both of them. It would be decades before I learned that neither author actually exists. Both were the creation of Edward Stratemeyer,… Continue reading
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The Bergerac Test
My favorite movie of all-time is the 1990 adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac starring Gérard Depardieu. From the moment my best friend sat me down and showed me the film, it went straight to the top. I became obsessed with the original play and its various translations, the fantastic Steve Martin version “Roxanne,” and even… Continue reading
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Introducing NEO
Nine years ago, I wrote a blog post about my ideal novel writing tool called NEO. You can read that original post here. The problem I was trying to solve was replicating the clean, crisp workflow I’ve always had in Apple’s Pages, before Apple updated and ruined Pages. Most of my novels have been written… Continue reading
