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Here's what I published from Sunday, July 12, 2026 to Saturday, July 18, 2026: #SaveTheEmDash I’m so grateful Brian Phillips wrote this article. There have been moments recently that I’ve avoided em dashes knowing how people fixate on them as proof of AI slop. But they’
Here's what I published on Friday, July 17, 2026: #SaveTheEmDash I’m so grateful Brian Phillips wrote this article. There have been moments recently that I’ve avoided em dashes knowing how people fixate on them as proof of AI slop. But they’re just so useful and
I’m so grateful Brian Phillips wrote this article. There have been moments recently that I’ve avoided em dashes knowing how people fixate on them as proof of AI slop. But they’re just so useful and deserve rescue from the ire of the internet brigade. It would be
Here's what I published from Sunday, July 5, 2026 to Saturday, July 11, 2026: Normal Cheating My home state, Utah, is packed with law-breakers, scofflaws. They do it with impunity, on a daily basis. To make matters worse, law enforcement is complicit. It’s illegal to drive
Here's what I published on Saturday, July 11, 2026: Normal Cheating My home state, Utah, is packed with law-breakers, scofflaws. They do it with impunity, on a daily basis. To make matters worse, law enforcement is complicit. It’s illegal to drive faster than the speed limit.
My home state, Utah, is packed with law-breakers, scofflaws. They do it with impunity, on a daily basis. To make matters worse, law enforcement is complicit. It’s illegal to drive faster than the speed limit. Utah takes this very seriously; the penalty is not trivial. Anywhere from just
Here's what I published from Sunday, June 28, 2026 to Saturday, July 4, 2026: 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
Here's what I published on Friday, July 3, 2026: 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
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
Here's what I published on Thursday, July 2, 2026: 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)
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
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.