The AI Christmas Quiz – bonus festive newsletter
If you read my previous grouchy message, you'll know that this spectacular Christmas Quiz edition was on its way. I realise that every single one of you will...
Past, Present, and Future: A Christmas AI Story 🎄
A festive robot carefully typing out this newsletter, generated and manipulated using Picsart The creative inspiration for this post came to me around 10am...
Big, clumsy, hairless cats
After my last Grinch-who-stole-Substack post, I thought I would lighten the mood a little and take it down a notch or two. It all got a bit serious, didn’t...
So long, and thanks for all the bile
This was my last post on the Substack platform (it was originally published here). If you received this in your email inbox, nothing will change other than...
Fix your broken UI before you build your shiny AI
I attended a couple of conferences over the last week-and-a-bit. They were good. Good content, good speakers, good side conversations, good food. I even...
The culture that changes the culture
I’m writing on a different topic from the one I originally had planned this week. My thoughtfully curated content plan (aka scribbled bullet list in my...
Circling back, doubling down
Hello dear reader, I hope all is well. This week’s dispatch is a tiny bit more opinionated than previous posts and I’d be interested to know what you think....
My musical immersion (Taylor’s Version)
So this is a bit of a deviation from the norm for me (can you even have a norm after five newsletters?). For the observant, it states on my hurriedly-written...
Finding the joy in enforced delay
In my less successful moments as a parent, I’m prone to stumbling into the it-wasn’t-like-this-when-I-was-your-age trap. I say trap, because as a strategy it...
The last, greatest, totally harmless social network?
One of my favourite chapters in Ben Smith’s Traffic, crucial reading if you’re interested in how the web as we know it came to be, is on what he calls “the...
This newsletter will, literally, change very little
‘Automation’ is one of those words that sets me on edge. Maybe it’s because my brain immediately associates it with a high-speed production line: whirring...
Overlong, overwrought intro
It’s an undeniable fact that there are already too many words on the Internet. In an age of a trillion distractions, no-one has the time or mental capacity...