I've written a shareable guide to using AI responsibly at a company—any company. Maybe even your company. You can find it at howweuseai.guide. It starts with three simple rules, then offers a quick overview of how modern AI tools work and why understanding that helps you make better use of them. Like any set of guidelines that hopes to be followed, it makes every effort...
Every time I sit down to write music these days, I’m visited by an unwelcome thought. Somewhere, right now, my art—music and writing—is being ground into semantic sausage to feed businesses that see replicating artwork as among the simplest possible tasks for artificial intelligence. Should I be terrified? Or angry? Same thing, I suppose. Anger is just fear set on fire. I know many of...
These days, I’m less inclined to invest my time, my trust, and myself in the enormous tech companies looming over us like a gathering storm. Their wares are glossy, but fleeting. And the cost is high—especially when it’s free. My rebellion is simple: choose technology that respects me. Durable technology is built on foundations that keep the developer’s incentives aligned with the user’s. Where both...
Obsidian is a topic of deep interest for me and for many of you reading this, so I wanted to follow up on my first post about it. Because things have changed. Since that post, I’ve refined my approach to using it. Personal notes are on the moveI wasn’t sure if Obsidian would win me over for personal notes, and while it still hasn’t for...
Back in 2017, Bowers & Wilkins convinced me that wireless audio had reached a point of excellence. I no longer own the P7, but today their distant successors, the Bowers & Wilkins Px8, are perched on my head as I write this—prompting me to reflect on what a successful upgrade entails. When I buy audio equipment, my goal is simple: to move the goalpost. The...
A core tenet of audiophile folklore is “burn-in”, the idea that headphones, speakers, and other audio equipment benefits from a period of time (usually measured in days or weeks) where you just…play things through it. Depending on which acolyte is describing the ritual, you may be advised to play pink noise, white noise, or even a playlist of your usual listening material. Do it loudly,...
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I don’t have to like it, I don’t have to trust it...but I also don’t have to doubt it at every turn. One thing I can't do is ignore it—how could I? The idea that we can put the genie back into its bottle seems less and less likely to me as time goes on. And if it’s here to stay, I’d like our coexistence...