The Quiet Ai
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Slow, honest, un-hyped writing on building with AI — practice over hype, systems over tools. Written here first, by Gabe.
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Before You Add Another Bot
Often, in our experience, the mess was never a shortage of bots. Nobody had written down who owns what.
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Does This Still Need to Be Me?
Hiring a virtual assistant taught a generation of small business owners that they didn’t have to do everything themselves. AI can teach that lesson again, at a bigger scale, but only to the people who stop treating it as a faster way to answer their own questions.
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How to sequence a yin class: start with what it’s for
Yin yoga was designed for sitting, not for quiet. Sequence it by what each pose opens.
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Four Things People Call a Detox
One of them has a randomized trial behind it that I can show you, and it has no juice in it.
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What Feeds You Besides Food
Nutrition advice starts at the plate. The idea I trained in starts somewhere else, and it gives you four places to look.
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Say What’s Synthetic
If AI made part of your video, say so in one plain sentence where viewers will see it. Here is the sentence, and the one thing to never synthesize.
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Your AI Thinks Your Idea Is Great. That’s a Problem.
An AI that understands your idea will explain why you’re right. Give it a job that needs disagreement, then check what it says against the real thing.
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The Ten-Second Test
A new AI model answers with a probability and nothing else. Reading up on it gave me two questions to ask before I reach for any model: what kind of work is it, and how many at once?
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