What my mother said when I showed her.
She hadn't read the newsletter. I gave her a printed copy. Here's what happened.
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For the people you love. AI projects for curious adults — bedtime stories, custom songs, letters we've been meaning to write, and whatnot. Free. No technical skills.
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A letter you can write this Sunday afternoon.
The third tutorial. Voice memo in, letter out. About thirty minutes.
What you made this month.
Nine short stories from your replies. Names changed. Details real.
The song my cousin made for his father.
A hospital room, a song, and what happened on the last morning.
What I'm changing my mind about.
Two months in. Here are three things I thought I knew that I don't anymore.
The bedtime story that scared the kid.
A small disaster, and what it taught me about how AI renders things too literally.
What I gave a friend who was going through something hard.
I waited. I listened. Then I made one small specific thing.
What my niece is making now.
She's seven. She made me a four-page book about a whale that goes to space. The AI had nothing to do with it.
A custom song you can make this weekend.
The second how-to. The project people lose their minds over.
What my friend made for her sister's wedding.
A song with thirty-one specific things in it, and what happened when she played it.
Why I keep coming back to this.
A short reflection at the end of the first month, and what I think this is for.
The most surprising thing someone told me this week.
Sometimes the AI conversation is happening in places the AI conversation never thinks about.
The picture my niece drew.
A small thing on my fridge that no AI in the world could have made.
What I almost made and didn't.
A small story about restraint, and the moment I closed the laptop.
A bedtime story you can make tonight.
The first proper how-to in this newsletter. The project that started everything.
What I told my brother about AI.
A five-minute conversation I've now had with about thirty people. Worth writing down.
Five things AI is still bad at, with specifics.
Where the tool stops, and where you take over.
What I was wrong about.
A tech insider, marking the calendar on a thing he got wrong two years ago.
I made my niece a card last week
The part of the AI story nobody is reporting is the part she's already living.
What I think about when I close the laptop.
Most days I'm just a guy. AI shows up in the boring useful corners, and that's fine.