HeyJaredThis Might Be Cringe
A collection of essays about things on my mind. It might be cringe, but I'm learning (and trying) to not care (so much).
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AI has ruined writing for me (opens the original)
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AI has ruined writing for me. For the third week in a row, I’ve sat down to write post #9 in my Be Cringe series (which is now 17 days late1) and have been utterly unable to do so. Last week, I fumbled through an outline, writing sentence by sentence, never quite finding a flow state. I scrutinized every word, every punctuation mark, every idea. I just couldn’t make it through.This can’t sound like AI, I thought. My ideas need to be better than a
I'm not sure going freelance is all it's cracked up to be. (opens the original)
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It’s 2:59 pm on any given weekday. The time of day when I look back and see what I’ve gotten done (usually one or two meals, a workout, some client work, maybe dealing with unloading the dishwasher or starting a load of laundry, maybe even some creative stuff), and also the time when I look ahead and think about what final tasks I can squeeze out of the last two hours of the day. I don’t have a full 40-hour week, in terms of work, but I feel like I currently have enough work that I can’t dedicat
#8: Be Cringe About Being Bad at Something (opens the original)
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Be Cringe is a year-long experience centered on showing up more authentically — even when it feels embarrassing. Each month, I share a theme, reflect on how I’m working with it in my own life, and invite subscribers to explore it alongside me. Welcome to Month 8: Be Cringe about Being Bad at Something. Below, I’ll share insights from Month 7: Be Cringe about Choosing Yourself, as well as how
Be Self-Published with Brooklyn Rose (opens the original)
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For the 10th (!!) episode of Be Cringe, I sat down with Brooklyn Rose to talk through her debut novel, Sex Positive (publishing on August 4th, 2026). She’s a prolific writer and author with a stack of finished manuscripts and who queried her novel for about a year before deciding to self-publish. We talk about: Why she started writing Sex Positive after noticing a theme to the questions she’d get from patients while working as a PA at Planned ParenthoodThe querying process and what led her to se
Writing without an agenda (opens the original)
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It’s been a while since I wrote a newsletter with no agenda. One of those essays that I don’t quite know what I’m going to say when I start, but then something comes out the other end that just works. This was the bones of this newsletter when I first started. My about page still says, “I write about whatever’s on my mind and let inspiration take precedence over “content strategy,” and while that still feels true, ‘whatever’s on my mind’ has been more structured as of late.That’s not a bad thing
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