Chain of Thought

Thinking at the edge of AI.

Oct 26, 2023

ChatGPT Is the Best Journal I’ve Ever Used

My slow and steady progression to living out the plot of the movie 'Her'

Oct 17, 2024

How to Figure Out What People Want

Think in sequences, not essences

Nov 9, 2023

A Day at the Center of the AI Boom

In San Francisco, there’s one rule to live by: Layer up.

Mar 14, 2024

Can a Startup Kill ChatGPT?

Google is dangerous—a founder cracked on Zyn and Diet Coke more so

Feb 16, 2023

Workshop: Learn to Write With AI

ChatGPT, GPT-3, and Lex as powerful tools in the writing process

Oct 3, 2025

Seeing Like a Language Model

AI and the successor to the old, Western worldview

Mar 28, 2024

Simulating One-way Door Decisions With AI

AI can refine your ability to know your future state

Feb 20, 2025

LLMs Turn Every Question Into an Answer

Language models as text expanders

Sep 12, 2024

OpenAI’s o1 Model, Explained

Chain of thought opens a new paradigm in AI progress

Oct 12, 2023

You’re a Developer Now

ChatGPT is a creative power-up for builders—and you should use it

Mar 28, 2024

Hypothetical Journal Entries Written by AI

How would I feel if I raised money for Every?

Nov 3, 2023

Is Chat the Future of AI?

The promise and perils of chat and ChatGPT

Nov 10, 2025

Where Explanations End

A short story about the most important question in history

Jun 6, 2024

LLMs Turn Every Question Into an Answer

Part two: Language models as text expanders

Nov 21, 2023

The King Is Back in the Castle

But you only get one coup

Sep 8, 2024

AI Journaling Changed My Life

Your new best friend for personal development

May 22, 2024

GPT-5 Is Coming: Reading Between the Lines at Microsoft Build

News and notes from the AI-everything developer conference

Mar 3, 2023

Self-Paced Workshop: Learn to Write with AI

AI can help you produce the best writing of your life—but only if you know how to use it well. In this 90 minute subscriber-only workshop I

Oct 17, 2025

Seeing Business Like a Language Model

Business principles work—until they don't. What matters is building gut-level next token prediction.

Sep 24, 2024

GPT-4 Is a Reasoning Engine (2023)

Reason is only as good as the information we give it

May 23, 2024

Coding With Devin: My New AI Programming Agent

Is it an employee or a tool?

May 3, 2024

The Next Big Programming Language Is English

I spent 24 hours with AI coding assistant Github Copilot Workspace

Oct 10, 2025

Seeing Science Like a Language Model

Language models reveal what centuries of scientific method missed: Some truths resist reduction.

Feb 12, 2023

Bonus: Chatbot Sample Code and Metrics Updates

For paying subscribers only