Josh Bernoff

Senior managers are supposed to seek opportunities to operate “at scale” — that is, with the efficiency that comes from many repetitions.

Apparently, if you ask an AI model for a certain kind of ghostwriter, my name bubbles up.

We’ve got one week left in the survey of writing professionals attitudes about AI, sponsored by Bernoff.com and Gotham Ghostwriters.

Newsletter 172.

I’ve just returned from a senior living community where my mother is a resident.

At one point in a job I had, I was considering an action that would have been legal and effective but a bit sneaky.

Around 100 BCE, the Roman poet Juvenal decried how the people and their public servants had been distracted from their duties by the promise of “bread and circuses.” the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out mili…

I get about ten recruiting offers a week on LinkedIn for “opportunities” that I’m perfectly suited for.

Newsletter 171.

The 2026 “AI and the Writing Profession” survey, sponsored by Bernoff.com and Gotham Ghostwriters, will be closed to new respondents in two weeks.

Do you know what you do?

President Trump says that from this point forward, artificial intelligence will be known as super intelligence.

It sounds simple.

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If you have the financial resources not to need extra money during your retirement, then you have a set of decisions to make.

“Writing coaching” sounds like an open-ended commitment, similar to, say, sports coaching or executive coaching.

In the Classic Star Trek episode “The Ultimate Computer,” most of the crew of the Starship Enterprise are removed and replaced with the ultimate in automated starship operations, the M-5 Multitronic unit.

I’ve now worked on 80 nonfiction book projects.

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As a freelance service provider, here’s how I behave: A lot of service providers work like this.

When I get hired to edit a manuscript these days, the first thing I do is check whether it was created in whole or in part with AI.

If you have expertise that is valuable to a narrow audience, this post is for you.

Every couple of months I get together in Portland with other writers in Maine at an event put on by the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance.

Newsletter 168.

In eleven years of being a freelance writer and editor, I’ve developed a very tight circle of preferred freelance partners.

How much of your time do you spend, altruistically, for other people?

The thing I noticed more than anything else in the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks was the unity.

One principle is at the center of all debates about AI use: That AI makes workers more productive AI makes workers more productive.

Newsletter 167.

I get emails and LinkedIn messages from random people all the time.

A social media poster recently asked what part of writing a book their followers hated — ideation, drafting, editing, rewriting, and so on.

Working with AI on your book will enable you to polish your prose to a high sheen (just like all the other similar books).

This is a followup on Tuesday’s post about a likely author scam called Hunt Down We Read.

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Authors get AI-generated highly targeted pitches all the time.

To understand the moral issue at the center of today’s post, you must first understand who Milo Yiannopoulos is.

This is a little experiment.