A late 2025 series aiming to break down the technologies that underpin generative AI, Large Language Models, Natural Language Understanding, and Information Retrieval. Featuring absolutely no math, minimal technical jargon, and lots of pop culture.
Content Pros Update, October 2023
Content Pros Update, September 2023
There’s a lot of online chatter on the new platform-driven internet, the rise of AI, and what all that means for the future. With techno-optimists and legacy media failing to understand what’s actually going on, maybe it’s time to create the internet we really want.
Publisher Deborah Carver steps into the ring to weigh on recent media criticism of the word "content," suggesting that the budgets allocated to content production and the possibilities of generating "form" with AI should be where our attention lies.
Freelancing gets a bad reputation because of its infamous feast-and-famine cycles that can make even the most resilient among us feel anxious. One way to not only survive, but thrive is to build repeatable, scalable systems that position you as the unequivocal expert in your field.
Whether you know it or not, your next big campaign hinges on the technical concepts behind culture-making: organizational design. Dive into how design can ferment culture.
How to understand tokens and vector embeddings, for word people.
Even in the face of "black box" algorithms, the history of artificial intelligence—natural language processing, more specifically—has left plenty of clues. While we can't understand the full equation, we can see how building blocks create common patterns in how current algorithms process language.
Infrastructure, no matter how solid or planned or continuously improved, gets messy. Observing humanity in July feels like the ultimate UX research experiment.
July is prime chart-making season. July 2025 is one more chartmaking season that will not be powered by artificial intelligence, and here's why.