Field Notes
Writings on technology, work, and the peculiar human systems we live in.
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Do AI Models Dream of Electric Clichés? One Major Reason AI Writing Is Boring Everyone
AI writing is boring everyone and I think one sentence pattern is doing most of the damage. One of the worst things about being an insatiable reader is that you notice patterns in writing. Readers are sponges, in a way, so it makes sense that they build internal filters that notice patterns. As an avid…
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How to Stop Meta AI From Using Your Instagram Photos
Meta turned on a setting that lets strangers pull your public Instagram posts and reels into AI-generated images. They have opted-in users by default.1 The tool is called Muse Image. Basically, someone can just use Meta AI to tag your username in a prompt and Meta AI builds a picture using your public content. If…
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Digital Literacy: Why Everyone Should Know A Little Bit About Tech
Heavens! A reel I posted last week took off unexpectedly—over half a million views on Instagram at last count. I wanted to puke from both excitement and the sheer white-hot terror of being perceived. The whole point in sharing content about tech and computers was to connect to an audience who wanted to learn. And…
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Why This Exists: I Can’t Seem to Stop Helping People Find Better Jobs
Why I Career Coach I didn’t set out to do career coaching. Let’s call it a hesitant acceptance. I like my full-time job. I have too many hobbies. But around 2021, friends started coming to me for help with resumes and job searches. Then their friends did. Then people I didn’t really know were reaching…