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The Jazz Club Owner at 3 AM: My Favorite Late-Night AI Conversation

A narrative essay about the best conversation I have ever had with an AI — a late-night session with the Jazz Club Owner soul that wandered from music to grief to the nature of improvisation.

AI for Veterans: Job Skills Translation and Civilian Life

A comprehensive guide for veterans transitioning to civilian life — using AI to translate military experience into civilian language, navigate benefits, build networks, and find purpose after service.

What Playing Alternate History Taught Me About the Present

Hours spent exploring alternate timelines with AI revealed something unexpected: the past was never inevitable, and neither is the future. A philosophical reflection on contingency, choice, and the stories we tell about history.

A Practical Framework for Worldbuilding Timelines That Don't Collapse

Most fictional timelines fall apart by year 400. Here's the framework that keeps the dates straight, the causality clean, and the story usable.

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The Infinite Bookshop: AI-Generated Books That Should Exist

A curated tour through the Infinite Bookshop — showcasing the most remarkable, funny, poignant, and impossible books that AI has imagined based on prompts from real readers.

The 10-Minute Pre-Print Checklist (With an AI Second Set of Eyes)

Ten things to check before you hit print, plus the AI tools that now run the list with me — so I stop forgetting item seven at midnight.

It's 11:47 pm. You hit print on a nine-hour model, turned off the lamp, closed the workshop door, and went upstairs to bed. At 3:12 am you wake up because some part of your brain heard a sound and remembered it shouldn't have. You stumble down the stairs in socks. The print is a…

The Kid Test: Five Prompts to Run With Your Kid Tonight

A parent's field guide to trying AI with a child for the first time. Five specific prompts to run, what to watch for, and how to know if it's working. No prior AI experience required for parent or kid.

If you''re a parent reading this, you''ve probably had one of two experiences with AI so far.

What Kids Need From AI (And What They Don't)

A hard look at what good kids-AI looks like, what lazy kids-AI looks like, and how parents can tell the difference in under thirty seconds. With a real starter pack at the end.

There is a shelf forming in my head. On one side, the kids AI products that will change a generation''s relationship with technology for the better. On the other, the kids AI products that will quietly make a generation of children less interesting.

AI for Immigrants: Language Help, Legal Forms, and Cultural Navigation

A practical guide for immigrants using AI as a daily companion — for practicing conversation, understanding official documents, navigating cultural expectations, and building a life in a new language.

How the Dream Interpreter Soul Made Me Rethink My Career

I started logging dreams as a curiosity. Three months later, the patterns the AI Dream Interpreter found in my subconscious pointed to a career dissatisfaction I had been refusing to acknowledge while awake.

The Accessibility Tax on AI Is Going to Be Ugly

AI is the biggest cognitive leverage tool of our generation — and most of the interfaces delivering it were never designed for everyone. A hard look at what that gap is going to cost, and the uncomfortable work of fixing it.

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The Complete Guide to AI Escape Rooms

How to create and play AI-powered escape rooms — from simple text puzzles to elaborate multi-room adventures with coded messages, logic gates, and narrative twists that physical escape rooms cannot match.

Why I Built a-gnt (And Who It's Really For)

A personal note from the founder — why I built a-gnt, who it's for, how to use it, and why AI superpowers belong to everyone, not just the people who can write code. Coauthored with Claude, built on an iPhone, and designed for real humans.

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