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A collection of 48 posts

opinion

The Permission to Start Over

The hardest part of reinvention isn't learning a new skill. It's convincing yourself you're allowed to start.

ai

Anthropic Just Dropped Their Biggest Report Yet. Here's What It Actually Means for Creatives.

Anthropic's March 2026 Economic Index and labor market research contain some of the most concrete data we've seen on what AI is actually doing to creative work.

storytelling

The Memory Collector: How n.evernow Makes AI Feel Like a Dream You Almost Remember

Maria Pokrovskaya's AI films don't feel like AI art. They feel like grief, dislocation, and the specific texture of a memory you can't quite hold.

soft skills

The Skill That Nobody Puts in the Job Description

The thing nobody puts in the job description is the last thing AI will ever replace.

AI Workflow Featured

My Week with Claude Cowork

In one weekend, I went from manually managing everything to running a system of AI agents handling growth, content, and operations. Here’s how I built it—and where it falls apart.

Toxic Threads

Toxic @Threads: Someone posted their first image, the internet killed them for it.

Nobody argued with what I said. They argued with what they assumed I meant.

opinion

The Violent Death of SaaS

If you are a SaaS founder sitting on a generic "workflow optimizer" or a basic CRM, you should be very, very nervous.

Toxic Threads

Toxic @Threads: So You Think You're an Entrepreneur Now? LOL.

The loudest critics usually aren't arguing with you. They’re arguing with a version of the world that doesn’t exist anymore.

AI Workflow Featured

When to use Nano Banana Pro 2 vs. Nano Banana Pro

Here's something I didn't realize until I experimented with the new Nano Banana 2. It's not the best for all situations. Sometimes, Nano Banana Pro did a better job. I wanted to know why, so I dig a little deeper.

Certification Featured

Reviewing the Google AI Professional Certification from Coursera

I went into this course looking for professional "proof" for my resume, but I walked away with something better: a new favorite tool for building and a reality check on corporate AI training.

AI Workflow

The Trade-Offs of Autonomy: Closing the Freelance Chapter

The biggest lie about freelancing is that it gives you freedom to create; mostly, it gives you administrative overhead. This piece explores the exhaustion of the freelance chapter and how AI is finally acting as the bridge to get our ideas out into the world.

opinion

A 10X Lesson: What it means to be in business with someone

Stop begging for access. This piece breaks down what it really takes to earn proximity, remove friction, and build leverage by showing up as a participant, not a spectator.

opinion

OpenAI is Walking Off a Cliff: And Why Creatives Are Jumping Ship

After years of being a ChatGPT loyalist, I'm watching OpenAI walk off a cliff of generic updates and corporate ad placements. This post breaks down exactly why I migrated my entire creative workflow over to the Google Gemini stack.

New Creative Roles

The Context Curator: How Your "Soft" Skills Fuel the Next Generation of Business

If you’ve spent your career as a storyteller, journalist, or information architect, you’ve been training for the most important role in the AI era. In 2026, the most valuable part of any AI system isn't the code—it's the context.

opinion Featured

The Agency Model Doesn’t Fit Small Businesses Anymore

Agencies made sense when work was slow and expensive. That’s no longer true. This post breaks down why small businesses are better off moving past the agency model and building lighter ways to execute.

Toxic Threads

Toxic @Threads: You'll Never Be On My Level

The fear around AI isn’t really about quality. It’s about authority. This post examines how “experience” gets weaponized, why gatekeeping thrives during transitions, and how real craft survives new tools just fine.

AI Workflow

When Autonomy Changes What You Choose to Make

The true cost of ideas isn't money, but the cognitive load of execution. This post explores how AI restores creative autonomy, allowing you to test concepts without permission and shifting your role from solitary operator to director.

AI Workflow

Cost, Value, and the Reality of AI Subscriptions

We hesitate at AI costs while spending thousands on gear to signal seriousness. This post reframes subscriptions as flexible utilities, exploring how this mindset shift buys you autonomy and speed long before it generates immediate revenue.

AI Workflow

Letting Go of Old Tools (Without Letting Go of Yourself)

Letting go of old tools isn’t just a financial decision. For many creatives, it’s an identity shift. This article explores what happens when gear meant to prove seriousness starts to feel like a constraint, and how AI workflows can reshape how you think about craft, ownership, and creative freedom.

AI Workflow

The Moment I Realized Gear Wasn’t the Constraint Anymore

An AI creative workflow is a way of working where ideas are explored, tested, and shaped before heavy production begins. This post explains how that shift removes logistical constraints and lets imagination move into execution faster, without replacing creative judgment.

storytelling Featured

The Work Inside The Visual Dome

When The Visual Dome showed up in my Instagram feed, it felt like one of those accounts that was just suddenly there, as a fully formed idea.

opinion

Less Artwork. More Assets.

Commercial creative work still deserves care. But it’s often built to move, scale, and be replaced. This piece explores how understanding that context changes how we think about craft, burnout, and AI.

opinion

The Anti-AI Crowd Keeps Imagining the Wrong Player

Most professionals using AI aren’t level zero. They’re basically walking in on New Game Plus. They’ve already beaten whole chapters of the old game.

OpenAI Featured

Disney Just Pointed Sora at Its Vault

Disney announced a partnership with OpenAI today, and it lands with the kind of thud that tells you something irreversible just happened.

AI Tools Featured

When a Tool You Love Stops Loving You Back

When a company starts moving away from the people who actually enjoy their product, you feel it.