AI

12 July 2026
Classic literature: an AI showcase (13.5 hours over 3 days)

I've forgotten most of the books I've read, and I'll never read the whole canon anyway. So over three days, and 13.5 hours with Claude Code, I built a personal map of the classics of literature and ho…
19 December 2025
Thoughts on AI

AI was built in ways I find ethically troubling, and it's going to hurt people who don't deserve to be hurt. I hate it. But the toothpaste is out of the tube, and I've come to the conclusion that prag…
2 December 2025
The paradox of code

Since ChatGPT was released in late 2022, learning to code has become dramatically easier. I taught myself to code with the help of ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini — it felt like a genuine revolution in ac…
11 April 2025
Four types of “existential” threat

The term "existential threat" gets used quite broadly, and I think it's often used when it's not really appropriate. This is a typology of how I think about four different types of "existential" threa…
24 January 2025
Recursive goal-setting with the help of AI

Lately I've been using AI to help with goal-setting — working on a "living" document that outlines my goals in a way that feels organic. I've included some prompts you can experiment with yourself.
1 August 2023
Ways I use AI in my day-to-day life

I use AI every day. Most of the time I use ChatGPT or Claude 2 — if something is a bit detailed and I'm not sure how useful the AI will be, I often open a chat window with both and see which one is be…
30 June 2023
Midjourney art gallery

A selection of images I've "created" with the magic of Midjourney — what do you even call it when an AI does the heavy lifting but it wouldn't exist without your prompts in the first place?
18 May 2023
Adiós, amigos!

This blog and Fairhaven Wealth are on indefinite hiatus. I have other things in my life right now that are more important to me and my direct loved ones, and freeing up that mental bandwidth is more i…
5 May 2023
AI and the last mile

AI can get you 90% or 95% of the way through a project surprisingly quickly. Getting the final stretch — the bit that makes it actually ready — is often harder than everything that came before. It's a…
17 April 2023
Thoughts on AI and financial advice (April 2023)

My views on AI, and specifically how it is likely to impact financial advice in the short- to medium-term, have evolved a lot in the last year or so. When the facts change, I try to change my mind — a…
4 April 2023
AI, red herrings, and Superman vs Voldemort

Red herrings are things that distract us from what is really important — a bit like bringing up the upcoming movie Superman vs Voldemort during a conversation that is hitting a lull. When it comes to…
2 April 2023
My crystal ball is on the fritz (#AI)

I've always said my crystal ball broke sometime in my late teens or early twenties. But right now, that feels more true than usual. The emergence of AI has me genuinely uncertain about what comes next…