Category: musings
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The AI Writing Workflow That Got Me “Hired”
Prologue:Me: Hey, DeepSeek, Can you pretend to interview me as someone who’s looking for a writer with AI? and be honest about if you’d hire me or not DeepSeek (DS): Absolutely! Let’s simulate an interview for a writer with AI expertise. I’ll play the role of a hiring manager looking for someone who can blend…
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Fuck Content
A pandemic and a career pivot later, in a time where everyone is curating content, I’m shooting straight. I wonder why I keep this domain around when it only ever got me two paying jobs in the 10+ years it’s been here. But alongside social media, now that we can easily summon bots to make…
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Currently: I’m learning to sail under a raincloud.
I learned some months ago that a corporate communications campaign I worked on bagged a gold and a silver medal at an industry awards show. With the nature of freelance corpo-comms, I can’t say who the client is on this platform. But what amazed me is that I left advertising in 2013 — and this…
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We aren’t talking enough about what it actually takes to survive pandemic
Every chart about covid care talks about the physical symptoms. 10 days in quarantine, as of writing, is the standard treatment time for covid. You may experience flu-like symptoms, difficulty breathing, and/or lack of taste and smell. If you are unvaccinated and/or with a weak immune system, or if covid travels downwards to the respiratory…
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Learning designer, not just a teacher
In 2019 I got ruffled at a colleague for saying educator was pretentious. I wasn’t sure why it rubbed me off the wrong way, but it did. But I got why he was wary – “educators” had a bad rep then as the Ted-Talk wannabes bordering on EduTech salespeople. Teachers were the ideal, the surrogate…