I wasn’t planning to become a website developer. I just wanted to rebuild my website, MartinGram.com, quickly. The old website no longer reflected what I wanted to do. I needed a place to publish my writing, share my observations about AI, business, and technology, and present my professional experience without looking like another generic “10
The Website That Ate My AI Credits Read More »
We humanize our dogs. We give them Instagram accounts. We imagine what they’re thinking. We dress them up, put them in first class when we travel, give them birthday parties, and sometimes talk about them as if they understand status, money, and social media. Of course we’re going to humanize AI. And I think we
AI May Not Want Control. We Do. Read More »
We’ve Been Prompting Computers for More Than 40 Years. We Just Didn’t Call It That. I grew up with personal computers. Not smartphones. Not laptops. Computers where you sometimes had to figure out exactly what to type before anything happened. RUN. LOAD. PRINT. One of the first computers I spent real time with was the
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Over the past few months, I’ve noticed something interesting. The better AI becomes at creating convincing content, the more interested I become in things that clearly weren’t created by AI. A slightly blurry photograph. A voice that hesitates. Someone searching for the right words. A camera that was actually there. At first, I thought this
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Over the past few months, I’ve started noticing something I wasn’t expecting. Not in technology. In people. The easier technology makes creation, the more people seem to value the act of creating. At first, it seemed like coincidence. Young people in Vietnam carrying dedicated Fujifilm cameras instead of relying on the smartphones already in their
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The Scarcity Has Changed For most of human history, information was difficult to access. Learning a new skill often meant finding the right book, finding the right mentor, or spending years discovering things through trial and error. Today, that has changed. Ask AI almost any question, and within seconds you’ll receive a thoughtful, well-structured explanation.
AI Can Explain the World. It Can’t Experience It. Read More »
Most people don’t drift because they lack information. They drift because they never build a center strong enough to hold direction once the noise starts pulling at them. And right now, the noise is everywhere. The internet rewards reaction. React fast enough, and you can stay visible for a while. But visibility and direction are
The Internet Rewards Reaction. Real Life Requires a Center. Read More »