Editors, Authors and Trust
How generative AI is straining the implicit contract between editors and contributors—and what book publishers can do to preserve quality, trust and diversity of voice.
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Systems and Meaning
Why publishing's instinctive caution about generative AI coexists with an unusual structural advantage: an industry built on language may be uniquely equipped to work with models that run on it.
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Only two out of nearly three dozen publishing job ads I reviewed this week mentioned AI skills. Meanwhile, the marketing world has moved ...
IPG Spring Conference 2026
Sixteen observations from the IPG Spring Conference 2026: on leisure time, platform risk, AI in workflows, procedural debt, and what it means to think generationally in a structural market shift.
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This week’s stories play out at a distance—in financial markets, academia and big tech—but they point clearly toward future directions fo...
Execution is Free
As AI lowers the cost of execution toward zero, professional value shifts up the stack—from code to judgement, from delivery to deciding what is worth delivering at all.
Twenty Minute Prototyping
What happens when a non-developer builds a playable text adventure and a new blog layout using Claude Code? A reflection on AI as a prototyping tool for those who sit across strategy and execution.
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There are two big themes in this week’s newsletter: utility and accountability, and they don’t sit easily together. The productivity gain...