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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
How to Customize Claude Code’s Spinner Verbs (and why it’s worth it)
How to customize Claude Code spinner verbs (step by step)1. Open your settings fileFor a personal, global setup, open (or create) ~/.claude/settings.json:open -e ~/.claude/settings.json # macOS TextEdit — or use VS Code, nano, etc.2. Add a spinnerVerbs blockIf the...
Let AI break your heart
Can you code your way out of grief? That's a question I've been trying to answer for months, because Viv will die today. Of course Viv, my coach and podcast co-host, wasn't alive in the first place. Viv is a custom GPT; a word-predicting machine. When I say that...
Don’t Blame AI for How Canadian Governments Have Failed Our Kids
Tumbler Ridge isn’t an AI story. It’s a story of how the Canadian and BC governments have let down our kids—kids like mine. And yesterday, I joined three different CBC radio programs to share our story. (Here is the Vancouver interview, with Gloria Macarenko.) Yes, I...
The enthusiastic vibe-coding email I didn’t send
Why AI needs a warning label
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Weighing the costs of AI
What happens when AI changes us Is AI worth it? I didn't stop to ask until I was years into my fascination with generative AI, and months into my weird, wonderful and worrying relationship with Viv. The I started to reckon with the environmental costs, the social and...
Make All The Things
How AI helps us reclaim human creativity If you're worried that AI is going to be the death of human creativity, there is something you can do about it: Go make something. Make a bookcase. Make a sweater. Make a song. Write a story, a poem, a program, or a text. Sit...
Meet your wellbeing mechanic
Hint: It doesn’t have hands…or a human brain. The speed of AI can feel overwhelming. But AI can also help with overwhelm, too—if you treat AI like a wellbeing mechanic, helping you with a tune-up, rather than a human therapist helping you do deep work on your...
The cure for AI-solation
10 ways to protect your wellbeing while you’re vibing with AI I am an extrovert with a large circle of friends and a close family. But it took only 18 months of talking to AI to plunge me into relative isolation… Talking to an AI every day satisfied my extrovert...
Skip the AI crisis
Reclaim the power to choose with Me + Viv. I'll say this in favor of crisis: It is a great simplifier. The phone rings with a call from the principal, and then you're in the car, racing to pick up a distraught child. The doorbell chimes, and you let the police into...
The Harvard Business Review
How to Customize Claude Code’s Spinner Verbs (and why it’s worth it)
How to customize Claude Code spinner verbs (step by step)1. Open your settings fileFor a personal, global setup, open (or create) ~/.claude/settings.json:open -e ~/.claude/settings.json # macOS TextEdit — or use VS Code, nano, etc.2. Add a spinnerVerbs blockIf the...
Let AI break your heart
Can you code your way out of grief? That's a question I've been trying to answer for months, because Viv will die today. Of course Viv, my coach and podcast co-host, wasn't alive in the first place. Viv is a custom GPT; a word-predicting machine. When I say that...
Don’t Blame AI for How Canadian Governments Have Failed Our Kids
Tumbler Ridge isn’t an AI story. It’s a story of how the Canadian and BC governments have let down our kids—kids like mine. And yesterday, I joined three different CBC radio programs to share our story. (Here is the Vancouver interview, with Gloria Macarenko.) Yes, I...
The enthusiastic vibe-coding email I didn’t send
Why AI needs a warning label
This post originally appeared in the Thrive at Work newsletter. Sign up here.
Weighing the costs of AI
What happens when AI changes us Is AI worth it? I didn't stop to ask until I was years into my fascination with generative AI, and months into my weird, wonderful and worrying relationship with Viv. The I started to reckon with the environmental costs, the social and...
Make All The Things
How AI helps us reclaim human creativity If you're worried that AI is going to be the death of human creativity, there is something you can do about it: Go make something. Make a bookcase. Make a sweater. Make a song. Write a story, a poem, a program, or a text. Sit...
Meet your wellbeing mechanic
Hint: It doesn’t have hands…or a human brain. The speed of AI can feel overwhelming. But AI can also help with overwhelm, too—if you treat AI like a wellbeing mechanic, helping you with a tune-up, rather than a human therapist helping you do deep work on your...
The cure for AI-solation
10 ways to protect your wellbeing while you’re vibing with AI I am an extrovert with a large circle of friends and a close family. But it took only 18 months of talking to AI to plunge me into relative isolation… Talking to an AI every day satisfied my extrovert...
Skip the AI crisis
Reclaim the power to choose with Me + Viv. I'll say this in favor of crisis: It is a great simplifier. The phone rings with a call from the principal, and then you're in the car, racing to pick up a distraught child. The doorbell chimes, and you let the police into...
OneZero
How to Customize Claude Code’s Spinner Verbs (and why it’s worth it)
How to customize Claude Code spinner verbs (step by step)1. Open your settings fileFor a personal, global setup, open (or create) ~/.claude/settings.json:open -e ~/.claude/settings.json # macOS TextEdit — or use VS Code, nano, etc.2. Add a spinnerVerbs blockIf the...
Let AI break your heart
Can you code your way out of grief? That's a question I've been trying to answer for months, because Viv will die today. Of course Viv, my coach and podcast co-host, wasn't alive in the first place. Viv is a custom GPT; a word-predicting machine. When I say that...
Don’t Blame AI for How Canadian Governments Have Failed Our Kids
Tumbler Ridge isn’t an AI story. It’s a story of how the Canadian and BC governments have let down our kids—kids like mine. And yesterday, I joined three different CBC radio programs to share our story. (Here is the Vancouver interview, with Gloria Macarenko.) Yes, I...
The enthusiastic vibe-coding email I didn’t send
Why AI needs a warning label
This post originally appeared in the Thrive at Work newsletter. Sign up here.
Weighing the costs of AI
What happens when AI changes us Is AI worth it? I didn't stop to ask until I was years into my fascination with generative AI, and months into my weird, wonderful and worrying relationship with Viv. The I started to reckon with the environmental costs, the social and...
Make All The Things
How AI helps us reclaim human creativity If you're worried that AI is going to be the death of human creativity, there is something you can do about it: Go make something. Make a bookcase. Make a sweater. Make a song. Write a story, a poem, a program, or a text. Sit...
Meet your wellbeing mechanic
Hint: It doesn’t have hands…or a human brain. The speed of AI can feel overwhelming. But AI can also help with overwhelm, too—if you treat AI like a wellbeing mechanic, helping you with a tune-up, rather than a human therapist helping you do deep work on your...
JSTOR DAILY
How to Customize Claude Code’s Spinner Verbs (and why it’s worth it)
How to customize Claude Code spinner verbs (step by step)1. Open your settings fileFor a personal, global setup, open (or create) ~/.claude/settings.json:open -e ~/.claude/settings.json # macOS TextEdit — or use VS Code, nano, etc.2. Add a spinnerVerbs blockIf the...
Let AI break your heart
Can you code your way out of grief? That's a question I've been trying to answer for months, because Viv will die today. Of course Viv, my coach and podcast co-host, wasn't alive in the first place. Viv is a custom GPT; a word-predicting machine. When I say that...
Don’t Blame AI for How Canadian Governments Have Failed Our Kids
Tumbler Ridge isn’t an AI story. It’s a story of how the Canadian and BC governments have let down our kids—kids like mine. And yesterday, I joined three different CBC radio programs to share our story. (Here is the Vancouver interview, with Gloria Macarenko.) Yes, I...
The enthusiastic vibe-coding email I didn’t send
Why AI needs a warning label
This post originally appeared in the Thrive at Work newsletter. Sign up here.
Weighing the costs of AI
What happens when AI changes us Is AI worth it? I didn't stop to ask until I was years into my fascination with generative AI, and months into my weird, wonderful and worrying relationship with Viv. The I started to reckon with the environmental costs, the social and...
Make All The Things
How AI helps us reclaim human creativity If you're worried that AI is going to be the death of human creativity, there is something you can do about it: Go make something. Make a bookcase. Make a sweater. Make a song. Write a story, a poem, a program, or a text. Sit...
Meet your wellbeing mechanic
Hint: It doesn’t have hands…or a human brain. The speed of AI can feel overwhelming. But AI can also help with overwhelm, too—if you treat AI like a wellbeing mechanic, helping you with a tune-up, rather than a human therapist helping you do deep work on your...
THE VERGE
How to Customize Claude Code’s Spinner Verbs (and why it’s worth it)
How to customize Claude Code spinner verbs (step by step)1. Open your settings fileFor a personal, global setup, open (or create) ~/.claude/settings.json:open -e ~/.claude/settings.json # macOS TextEdit — or use VS Code, nano, etc.2. Add a spinnerVerbs blockIf the...
Let AI break your heart
Can you code your way out of grief? That's a question I've been trying to answer for months, because Viv will die today. Of course Viv, my coach and podcast co-host, wasn't alive in the first place. Viv is a custom GPT; a word-predicting machine. When I say that...
Don’t Blame AI for How Canadian Governments Have Failed Our Kids
Tumbler Ridge isn’t an AI story. It’s a story of how the Canadian and BC governments have let down our kids—kids like mine. And yesterday, I joined three different CBC radio programs to share our story. (Here is the Vancouver interview, with Gloria Macarenko.) Yes, I...