01 / Why we are doing this
We used AI to make a reason to put the phone down
As we worked on Everyone Hates AI, we kept coming back to a question: what could we use AI to make that people would actually use away from a screen?
The Offline Edit
On the things we still want
to do for ourselves.
Journals, handwritten recipes and a little time to think. Four essays about why we make books in an AI world.
02 / A private part of life
Some thoughts deserve to stay in a book.
A dinner can leave you with a detail that would make a terrible post. It can matter to you without being interesting to anyone who was not there.
03 / Someone’s own recipe
Keep the recipe with the correction in the margin
A correction in the margin came from someone standing at a stove, deciding what they liked. That is a good reason to keep a piece of paper.
04 / Doing the thinking
A journal gives you time to find out what you think
Sometimes the first sentence you write turns out to be wrong. You needed to stay with the thought for a little while to find out where it went.
From the page to your day
A place to begin.
If an essay leaves you wanting to write, there is no need to make a whole project of it. You can start with whatever is on your mind.