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Join me tomorrow for the Make Work That Matters workshop!

The Pitt is a trashy-but-great medical drama that, surprisingly, has a lot to teach us about finding meaning in our work and lives.

What do we make when we can make anything?

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Like many of you, I'm a media creature.

If you didn't make it yourself, can you really call it your own?

Like most other creative people, I don’t feel fantastic about AI art.

Dream Logic: Exploring the horizons of creative work This is something different from me.

My official assessment of AI image generators has always been this: they’re impressive and fun, but not ready for real creative work.

The Wind Rises (2013) The four seconds of film above is the result of fifteen months of painstaking animation by a single artist under Hayao Miyazaki’s watchful eye.

Central image is totally different, but everything around that is taken from The Sting poster.

2D Akira vs 3D Holly The uncanny valley is the sensation of unease we feel when a human character looks close to but not quite human.

Stephen Root in Office Space My big struggle with using AI for creative work has been this: how do we harness the benefits of AI, while preserving our souls and not churning out slop?

I’ve just published an exclusive new guide Creative AI in 2025: A No-Hype Assessment!

#1: ChatGPT (and LLMs) Welcome to Part 3 of my rundown of the creative AI that are useful right now.

#2: AI Voice Synthesis Welcome to Part 2 of my rundown of the creative AI that are useful right now.

Echoes of Grace, a Sora promotional video by OpenAI Generative AI progress has definitely slowed down.

All new technologies begin as toys.

The Software Stack Powering My 2025 Workflow Obsidian is my workhorse 2024 was a year of software consolidation for me.

New video for The New York Times!