Wannabe Wisdom, Diaries of a Fake Guru
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Waiting for Frankenstein (opens the original)
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AI Has No Reputation to Lose. You Do. (opens the original)
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Hi ,It’s a wild time to be alive, isn’t it? I find myself saying that more and more these days.As an elder millennial, I haven’t completely come to terms with the fact that we’re living in the science-fiction movies I grew up watching. Artificial intelligence was once a fun futuristic idea, and now it’s a tool we use.My dream as a child was to have an AI ice cream detector that could detect the closest ice cream cone and pull it to me immediately. Peanut butter chocolate, ideally. And it would k
How To Change Your Email On Substack: The Hidden Setting (opens the original)
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Hi ,I swear I’m not a Substack how-to expert! But yes, this is my second instructional video in two weeks. Enough of you asked how to change your email on Substack that I went looking. And this is not intuitive at all. 👀I looked where any rational human being would look: your dashboard, your analytics, settings, settings inside the settings. Nope.Then I tried the profile. And spoiler alert: it’s not there either.And then I found it behind the third door…the least intuitive place you could possib
Followers vs. Subscribers: Where Should Your Attention Actually Go? (opens the original)
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Hi ,I have 5,500 followers on Substack. Nearly half of them have never received an email from me. Half of you are thinking, “Duh!” And the other half of you are thinking, “What? Why?” Understanding the nuances of Substack’s audiences can feel annoyingly confusing when you’re starting out. But even if you’ve been here for eons, you might not be thinking about non-followers, followers, and subscribers in a way that helps you see your newsletter’s larger Universe.<a class="button primar
The Case for Leaving It Until the Last Minute (opens the original)
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6:30 a.m. Sunday arrived like an eviction notice from sleep. The night before, S and I drove to get a double-scoop gelato cone: one scoop white chocolate and peanut butter, the other hazelnut. We tug-of-warred over the cold, melting creaminess as it dribbled down our hands. Thor, our dog, licked up the milky drops from the cement. Afterwards, we walked along the harbour, passing a margarita back and forth and grieving the end of our gelato.By 7 a.m. Sunday, I was driving up the highway to teach,
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