Transcript: 'How a Writer Uses AI Without Losing His Voice'

The transcript of AI & I with writer, designer, and photographer Craig Mod is below. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

Timestamps

1. Introduction: 00:00:00
2. Rebuilding Quicken and Campaign Monitor with AI: 00:03:51

Building The Good Place, a private Twitter alternative

1. for Craig’s members: 00:06:24
2. Why we’re entering a “golden age of tool building”: 00:10:39
3. Why AI could help writers build audiences: 00:12:17
4. Using AI to build a newsletter archive and a board-meeting Q&A library: 00:17:35
5. Creating a technology-free buffer to protect deep thinking: 00:27:58
6. How Craig is resisting the temptation to “mainline” AI for ten hours a day: 00:30:31
7. Why anthropomorphizing AI is “psychotic,” and why Apple got Siri right: 00:39:44
8. Being adopted, and making peace with humanity’s fragile place in an AI future: 00:47:42

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