A personal, lyrical essay-style publication by M. Jack Ferdinand exploring work, creative compulsion, and the emotional cost of loving one's job. The current site is being rebuilt, so the sample is sparse, mostly a placeholder plus one long, florid reflection.
Website: https://guidedcollapse.com/
A personal creative journal from a Dallas-area photographer, woodworker and app developer, mixing reflections on fatherhood and creative practice with project updates. Readers get candid first-person stories about building tools, running a small multi-brand business, and keeping a making practice going.
Personal essays by a designer on how AI agents are reshaping design practice, covering eval-driven design, ephemeral tooling, and the emotional side of reinventing a craft. It mixes hands-on workflow detail with reflections on taste, identity and the experience of design.
A personal, essay-style newsletter where a designer reflects on AI-augmented creative work, the pressure of speed, and hobby tech projects like off-grid mesh radio networks. Readers get candid first-person takes mixing workplace experience with tangents and curiosity-driven experiments.
A practical guide series for non-experts on using AI tools like Claude at work, covering setting up Claude's legal plugin for contract review, avoiding AI sycophancy and homogenized 'average' outputs, and building dashboards and animations with Claude. Each issue gives step-by-step instructions and short, shareable how-to content.
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