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Why Moving from Squarespace to Ghost Saved My Sanity

Thinking In Progress

Why Moving from Squarespace to Ghost Saved My Sanity

I’ve been sitting on this damn fence for too long. My ass, back, neck, and head all hurt from the duration — the research rabbit holes, the one question that leads to twenty more, exponential question growth (is that a thing?). Instincts pull one direction, “expert” voices pull another. Get

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Signals and Noise

So You Want to Build Your Own Website.

Great. Awesome. Cool. Cool cool cool. But should you? There’s no shortage of website-building tools promising you a DIY but professional-looking site in a weekend — many offer templates, drag-and-drop layouts, mix-and-match sections, content prompts, and more. Add built-in AI, and suddenly the platform becomes a set of hands — a

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Signals and Noise

Getting Into AI, With a Human in the Loop

Well, if Artificial Intelligence (AI) were a fictional soccer player — it would 100% be Roy “fucking” Kent. Yeah — I've been rewatching some Ted Lasso. Blunt. Relentless. Everywhere you look. And somehow, exactly what the situation calls for. It's here, it's there, it's

Surreal, abstract image of a laptop with human hands typing on the keyboard. Indistinguishable words and images drift and swirl around the hands and laptop.

Thinking In Progress

On Writing Here — Clear, Brief, Human

Most days, writing is messy work — trying to make sense of things and keep perspective. Clarity, brevity, explanation, and emotion — all at once — isn’t easy. Especially when the topic isn’t naturally emotional. Writing a story about a genuine connection between two people who meet during a classic meet-cute