Today I deleted 140 blog posts from this website.
From 2009 to 2015 I wrote regularly here, during the height of my “career,” such as it was, as a digital creator, online influencer, and web-based community developer and minor philanthropist. I guess you could even say that I made a living from my writing during that time.
But in the summer of 2015 I went silent in this space. The day job was in agency and startup land, I had retired from my philanthropy work, and the urge to create via the written word was stifled by the vitriol I encountered online as social media descended into the angry chaos it mostly remains today.
And now, eight years later, here I am again. I unlocked the door to this blog, threw open the windows, and deep-cleaned the hell outta this place. For the first time in a very long time, I’m excited to be online again, and it’s all because of the new AI tools coming to life.
No, I don’t need AI to help me write. I’m a downright decent writer when I want to be. In fact, I’m so downright decent that I actually will let AI help me write the first drafts of some of the more straightforward articles I’ll be putting up here shortly (the ones that are AI development tutorials and the like), just to save me a bit of time on those.
My plan is much, much bigger, though. I’m going to use AI to build a kind of immersive and emergent storytelling that’s never been possible before. That’s why I’m so excited about the technology, and why I’m back here writing on the blog. Expect some interesting ideas, projects, and GPT builds to come at you from this space in the near future!
In the meantime, please connect with me on social, get on the email list for more personal communication and to stay on top of what I’m working on, and drop a comment on any post that interests you, like we used to do in the old days 😉
Why is Lincoln laughing in the featured image? Because he knows what’s coming, friends . . . stay tuned.
Abraham Lincoln Did Not Invent Facebook: How a Guy and His Blog Fooled the Whole Wide Internet (Interview in The Atlantic on my Lincoln hoax – more coverage from CNN and The Washington Post)
PS: If you’re interested, I did save a few pieces I liked over on Substack.
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