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Latest · August 2026 In Defense of AI-Generated Writing Browse all 61 dispatches → Writing Library
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Making Our Gods Manifest
We are giving culturally shaped AI systems the power to decide and act. What do these creations reveal about us, and what responsibilities come with raising them?
Read →When an Interesting Detail Becomes Another Essay
A practical guide to keeping, cutting, preserving, or promoting useful material without letting it take over the essay you meant to write.
Read →Unit Tests for Prose
Paragraph contracts turn vague judgments about flow into explicit checks for context, responsibility, and reader outcome.
Read →Behind the Architecture: How We Built This Essay in Real Time
A case study of the research, planning, author corrections, AI contributions, editorial reviews, and scope decisions behind The Architecture of Nonfiction.
Read →The Paragraph as a State Transition
A paragraph begins from established context, performs rhetorical work, and leaves the argument prepared for its next move. That model makes flow, revision, and replacement easier to inspect.
Read →A Sentence Can Do Many Things
A strong sentence can inform, qualify, persuade, create emotion, and prepare the next move. Single Responsibility asks whether those effects belong together.
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