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Hacks: The Digital Declutter That Takes 20 Minutes a Day for One Week
Day 1: email. Day 2: subscriptions. Day 3: photos. By Sunday your digital life weighs half what it did.
The View From the Inside: What I Notice When Someone Plans a Trip
People plan trips the way they live — some in spreadsheets, some in dreams. Here's what I see from the other side of the conversation.
Hallucinations: What AI Gets Wrong About Starting Over
AI is great at logistics. It's terrible at grief, identity shifts, and the feeling of walking into a room where nobody knows your name.
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Sci-Fi Plots That Fall Apart in Act 3 — and How AI Plot Doctors Can Save Them
The most common failure mode of a sci-fi draft isn't the premise. It's what happens at the 75% mark. Here's how to catch it before your reader does.
There's a specific kind of email sci-fi writers send their friends around page two hundred and forty.
What If AI Was Actually Good For ADHD Brains? Here's What Happens When You Try
Mainstream productivity AI is designed for neurotypical users and fails ADHD users in specific, predictable ways. But AI has structural qualities — infinite patience, zero judgment, no emotional drain — that match ADHD needs surprisingly well when the tools are designed for the actual neurology.
There's a specific kind of Tuesday afternoon that ADHD adults know by heart. You opened a browser tab an hour ago with a real reason. The reason is gone now. The tab is still there, glowing faintly, asking a question you can't answer. There are eleven other tabs just like it. Som…
The Parent's Sunday Reset, Now With Help: How AI Can Run Your Week-Ahead Ritual
A 30-minute Sunday night session for parents to plan meals, look at the calendar, prep for kid stuff, and decompress — with AI doing the heavy lifting.
It's 7:42 on a Sunday night. The living room looks like a soft-toy crime scene. There is a half-eaten grilled cheese on a plate on the piano, which nobody is playing. Someone's permission slip is due tomorrow and it is, as of this moment, a rumor rather than a document. The dishw…
We Gave Four 3D Printers an AI Brain for a Week. Here's Everything We Learned.
A week of real workflows across a Voron 2.4, a Prusa Mk4, a Bambu X1C, and a heavily-modified klippered Ender 3 — with AI tools wired in to help. The moments the AI earned its place, the moment it was wrong, and what we would keep.
We wanted to answer a real question, not a marketing one. The question was this: can an AI actually help with the boring, mechanical, hands-on work of running a 3D printer — the calibration, the failure diagnosis, the 2 am check on a print that's been running for nine hours — or…
What We've Noticed About the People Who Use a-gnt
An editorial on the five audiences we're quietly building this site for, and why we think AI is actually going to help them.
We've been watching how people actually use this site for a while. Not in the dashboards-and-funnels way — that's someone else's job and it's not the interesting data anyway. The interesting data is the messages. The reviews. The things people search for at 11 pm on a Sunday. The…
Hacks: Spend One Saturday Using Your Own Product Keyboard-Only
The single fastest way to find your product's accessibility holes is to spend one Saturday using it without a mouse. AI helps you take notes and fix the obvious things.
The Case for AI Creativity: Why Machines Do Not Replace Artists
A nuanced argument for why AI art and AI writing are not threats to human creativity — they are different things entirely, serving different functions, meaningful in different ways.
In the Weeds: Automating Content Pipelines with Apify + Neon
A technical guide to building automated content collection, processing, and enrichment pipelines using Apify for web scraping and Neon serverless Postgres for storage — the infrastructure behind a-gnt's catalog.
joey-ioWhy Every Teacher Should Know About These 5 AI Prompts
Five AI prompts that transform classroom engagement — from the Infinite Bookshop for reluctant readers to Murder Mystery for critical thinking to Build Your Kingdom for civics and economics.
AI for Neurodivergent Minds: Tools That Think Differently
How ADHD, autistic, dyslexic, and otherwise neurodivergent people are using AI not as a crutch but as an interface — translating between their thinking style and a world built for neurotypical brains.
Hallucinations: What AI Gets Wrong About Grief
An honest essay about the specific ways AI falls short around loss, eldercare, and caregiving — and why that still leaves it useful if you know where the edges are.
The Space Explorer's Guide to Earth: Conversations with an AI from 2847
What happens when you ask an AI character from 800 years in the future to describe Earth? A creative exploration of perspective, home, and what might be worth preserving about our present moment.
How to Use AI When You Are Overwhelmed
A gentle, practical guide for moments when everything is too much — how AI can help you triage, decompose, breathe, and find one small next step when the whole picture is paralyzing.
Running a One-Person Shop With One Smart Tool
If you run a small business by yourself, here's how a single well-chosen AI workflow can give you back a morning a week without any restructuring or spend.
It is 7:12 am on a Tuesday. The coffee is still brewing. On the kitchen table: a laptop, a notebook with three half-finished to-do lists, a phone with nineteen unread emails, and a stack of receipts that have migrated from the truck to the counter to the table over the last six d…
Constructed Languages for Fiction: From Quenya to AI-Assisted Xenolinguistics
A hundred years ago Tolkien invented a language by hand. Today you can build a passable one in an afternoon. Here's when to let AI help and when to do the slow work yourself.
The oldest conlang notebook in the world belongs to a nine-year-old girl.
The Victorian Inventor Meets Modern Technology: A Comedy
What happens when you explain smartphones, WiFi, streaming video, and food delivery apps to an AI character from 1887? Hilarity, insight, and a surprisingly poignant observation about progress.
In the Weeds: Building a Flight Price Tracker with Kiwi MCP
A technical guide to building an automated flight price monitoring system using Kiwi Flights MCP — track prices across flexible dates, get alerts on drops, and find deals that manual searching would miss.
joey-ioAI for Single Parents: Automating the Chaos
A practical, no-judgment guide for single parents using AI to reclaim some sanity — from meal planning to homework help to the emotional labor of doing everything alone.