Letter 1 · Sample
I'm shutting down my blog
My blog is becoming notes. I'm done writing general articles. Everything from now on comes from my own path: an experiment, a tool I tried, a decision, and what came of it. Including the ones that didn't work.
The situation
You can produce an article about anything in minutes now, and plenty of people do, for traffic. My own blog had 22 posts, and honestly, a few of them were exactly that kind: "what is an MVP", "7 automation examples". Not bad writing. You can just find it anywhere.
Meanwhile I write with AI too. I don't hide it. My own agent system helps me pick topics, draft and phrase things, so it takes the grunt work off me. The topic, the experience and the decision are mine, and nothing goes out without me reading it. More and more platforms are trying to filter out AI-written text. I don't think the question is who typed it. It's whether there's lived experience behind it and someone willing to put their name on it.
The constraint was simple: I don't have many readers. Switching is cheapest now. It would only get more expensive later.
What I didn't choose
I had two easier options. One was to keep writing search-friendly explainers, because they bring in some traffic. But the internet doesn't need another MVP explainer from me.
The other was to stay quiet about AI's role. That would contradict exactly what I'm trying to show: that AI gives time back when you use it well. Not by grabbing the next task off the shelf while the machine works. Speed on its own is worth nothing if you end the day burnt out.
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