Aaron Miller

Aaron Miller

Tips on Asking for Help

Very good advice all around, and it almost all applies to people you know and people you don’t. My last heuristic is stranger: make it easy to say no. You might think that the worst outcome is a no, but the worst outcome is a pressured, begrudging yes. Your

Birthright

There’s a fascinating detail in my family history in how its lines crossed once, then not again until a hundred years later. My great-great-grandfathers of the Miller line (Allen Jr., on my dad’s side) and the Todd line (Thomas Sr., my mom’s side) both emigrated

Weekly Digest - Jun 21-27, 2026

Here's what I published from Sunday, June 21, 2026 to Saturday, June 27, 2026: Some common misconceptions about LLMs I was talking to my mother-in-law this week about how she downloaded ChatGPT to her phone two weeks ago. It’s her first experience with an LLM.

Some common misconceptions about LLMs

I was talking to my mother-in-law this week about how she downloaded ChatGPT to her phone two weeks ago. It’s her first experience with an LLM. We talked about all the ways she’s started using it, but also the common things that people misunderstand about how

Weekly Digest - Jun 7-13, 2026

Here's what I published from Sunday, June 7, 2026 to Saturday, June 13, 2026: Jesus Christ and Latter-day Saints All the discourse on social media over the last week+ has been expectedly pointless after the Dept of Defense listed The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day