He Wrote 100 Blog Posts With AI

Here's What He Stopped Believing.

Thomas Smith has now written more than 100 blog posts with help from generative AI. He still types most of them with his thumbs.

Smith, the Medium curator for the platform's Artificial Intelligence topic and the founder of The Generator — a publication dedicated to generative AI news, tool reviews and experiments — has spent over a year running a one-man experiment most journalists are too polite to admit they're running. He'...

He Talks Into His Phone on Dog Walks

Then AI Writes the Blog

The hardest part of writing, Sam Edelstein decided, wasn't the writing. It was the staring.

The blank page. The blinking cursor. The half-formed idea that vanished the moment he sat down at a keyboard. So Edelstein, a data and analytics consultant who blogs on Medium about generative and agentic AI, stopped sitting down. He started walking.

Now he opens the Voice Recorder app on his Pixel — or his iPhone, depending on the week — ...

Why Your Competitors' 5-Star Reviews Are Your Best SEO Asset

By Damon Nelson | Published May 2026 | Reading time: ~7 minutes

Originally inspired by Mohit Vaswani's piece on Medium (Apr 2026)

Barry Allen — the fastest man alive — can outrun anything. He could cross the city in four seconds. The world went blurry and quiet at that speed. He could be anywhere before the thought of going there had fully finished.

Speed, in his experience, solved most problems. If you could always be there firs...

The Odysseus Protocol: How to Survive the Monday Morning Sirens

By Damon Nelson | Published May 2026 | Reading time: ~10 minutes

Originally inspired by Zack Liu's piece, "The 'Sunday Anchor' Concept: A Simple $9/Month Solution for Overwhelmed Pros," published April 2026 on Medium.

The Aegean Sea stretched before Odysseus like a canvas of sapphire and emerald, the sun casting a shimmering path across the water. But a chill — not of the wind — ran through the hearts of his men. They knew what...

Stop Trying to Build the Next Big App

By Damon Nelson | Published May 5, 2026 | Reading time: ~7 minutes

Originally inspired by Zack Liu's piece on Medium (Apr 22, 2026)

In the sun-baked valley of Elah, two armies stood poised for battle. On one side, the Philistines, a formidable force anchored by a champion whose very presence cast a shadow of dread. On the other, the Israelites, their courage faltering before the monstrous, nine-foot figure of Goliath.

For forty days, Goliath taunted th...

If you've been watching the AI space, you already know Claude has become one of the most powerful tools for getting real work done. But here's where most people get stuck: Claude Chat, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork are three very different things — and if you're using the wrong one for the job, you're leaving serious productivity on the table.

Whether you're building automations, managing content workflows, or just trying to figure out what the heck "Cowork" even is — this guide breaks down th...