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From Knowledge to Power
I’ve been playing around with Obsidian for a while now, mostly as a repository for knowledge, i.e. a second brain. It is a free (yes, actually free) cross-platform app and the data is yours. Meaning that your vaults can be stored locally an...
How to Trip AI-Detectors
Usually, the most polished piece of a novel is the opening. It’s what we spend the most time on, not just because it’s written (usually) first, but because it’s what we rely on to hook the reader. We’re all going for that catchy opening lin...
Apparently, I Have to Prove I Wrote This
I’ve been on a hiatus for the last three months for several reasons, some personal (maybe more on this later), but also so I could concentrate on finishing the sequel to Threading the Needle, tentatively titled Margin of Error.
I finally b...
The bias in LLMs
A case study
Last weekend I attended LibertyCon 2026 as a pro and on Monday, June 29, I wrote an article about it. I wasn’t happy with the article, and since I have Substack on pause due to a book deadline, I decided not to publish it, esp...
Your Knowledge of The Craft Still Matters
If you don't know what you're doing, neither does your LLM
I’m going to show you why your knowledge of the craft still matters even when—or particularly when—you use an LLM.
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