Why I Started Writing My First Drafts Without AI Again
A few months ago, I opened a blank document to write an email that mattered. It was a message to an old friend I had fallen out of touch with, and I…
Technology, AI & Digital Life
A few months ago, I opened a blank document to write an email that mattered. It was a message to an old friend I had fallen out of touch with, and I…
My uncle got the call on a Sunday afternoon. The voice on the other end sounded exactly like his son: the same slightly rushed way of speaking, the same habit of starting…
The first time I noticed it, I was reading the AI-generated summary of a meeting I had actually attended. It was accurate. Every decision was listed, every action item had an owner,…
The mistake that changed how I use AI wasn’t a big, obvious one. It was small, confident, and almost invisible, which is exactly why it stuck with me. I’d asked a chatbot…
Six weeks ago, I mentioned to a chatbot, in passing, that my father-in-law had started using a walker after a hip surgery. It wasn’t the point of the conversation, just a stray…
I’ve planned every family trip for twelve years, and I’ve gotten good at it in the way you get good at anything you do out of necessity: efficiently, joylessly, and always slightly…
I noticed it while reading over my older kid’s shoulder during a homework session: three different sentences in a row started with the exact phrase the autocomplete suggestion had offered, phrases my…
I asked an AI chatbot for advice on something small nearly every day for about eight months, what to cook, how to word an awkward email, whether a purchase made sense, before…
I let an AI assistant plan my work week for a full month, treating its schedule as close to gospel unless something was genuinely broken, and the biggest change wasn’t productivity in…