In honor of my dropping by Inkhaven at Lighthaven in Berkeley this week, I figured it was time for another writing roundup. You can find #1 here, from March 2025.

I’ll be there from the 17th (the day I am publishing this) until the morning of Saturday the 22nd. I am happy to meet people, including for things not directly about writing.

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How I Use AI For Writing These Days

How have I been using AI in my writing?

Directly? With the writing itself? Remarkably little. Almost none.

I am aware that this is not optimal. But at current capability levels, with the prompts and tools I know [...]

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Outline:

(00:33) How I Use AI For Writing These Days

(03:44) Influencing Influence

(05:34) Size Matters

(06:23) Time To Write A Shorter One

(07:51) A Useful Tool

(08:08) A Maligned Tool

(10:04) Neglected Topics

(12:31) The Humanities Don't Seem Relevant To Writing About Future Humanity?

(13:50) Writing Every Day

(14:20) Writing As Deep Work

(15:25) Most Of Your Audience Is Secondhand

(17:57) That's Funny

(18:38) Fiction Writing Advice

(19:13) Just Say The Thing

(23:13) Cracking the Paywall

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