Apotheosis & Craft

For those who still learn difficult skills and find themselves competing with processors, is there a deeper purpose or meaning to the effort, and what happens to our humanity when technical mastery becomes optional?

  • The studious developer with a careful deployment and QA pipeline will catch most of these things and fix them before users notice.  read more

  • I asked it to tell me if my articles made sense, if my prose was clear, and if my points were well articulated. read more

  • Who—or what—is taking a photo when I point my phone at an interesting scene? read more

  • Happens when we stop learning the hard way—what happens when technical mastery becomes optional. read more

  • This year I seriously dabbled in generative code for the first time. read more

  • We may more and more feel the absence of bold ideas outside the metaphorical box as we more and more lean into these tools, but it is impossible to see what never was. read more