how do you do that? I'd love for it to be not-as-generative with music.
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I've gotten this a lot on the 3 essays I have up, so I avoided Hemingway entirely on the latest one I posted today https://www.terrygodier.com/body-language - I left it significantly more wordy and less edited. I hope someday these sort of comments will ease up a little bit, it's quite disheartening, even if I understand the suspicion and where it's coming from. There is something interesting there, in the way that AI has caused me to alter the way I write to avoid being labeled as AI.
Also, here is a literal blog post that I also wrote without AI about someone using AI to copy my app, which has my entire AI philosophy in it: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/03/22/on-ai-and-prior-art....
ref: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Casio+F-91W+Battery+Replacement...
Gordon Linoff has written a series of books on data mining and sql as well: http://www.data-miners.com/bookstore.htm
In addition to that though, I think I (and others?) make sense of the world through narrative and there is value to other people's narratives, though that may be in conflict with the context of your comment.
Could you possibly unpack this for me a little bit? It strikes me as absolutely true for me, too, or at least sounds like it could be true, but I'm pulling at a thread I can't quite grasp.
I have a paid newsletter, and I’ve started a community / education site dedicated to the model, as I couldn’t find one when creating my own.
Let me just say this... people are going to get rich off of paid newsletters, full stop.
But like anything else, it’s a many will play, few will win game.
There are examples of newsletters that have done well, and many examples of newsletters that have not.
In my opinion, given the choice between creating a blog and starting a paid newsletter, the choice is a pretty simple one.
Blogging is heavily saturated.
Google is downright hostile towards new, small publishers.
CPM rates are looking downright anemic.
The legal requirements behind affiliate offers are becoming complex, and sometimes confusing to understand.
On the newsletter side you have enhanced discovery, instant monetization with rates chosen by you, an implied audience that is “in theory” additive by nature, not just hit and bounce. Yes, you’ll have churn, etc. but that is how I am viewing the value prop.
Step 2. Get the partial MVP in front of users as quickly as possible. Mid MVP.
Step 3. Get the MVP in front of users as quickly as possible. Post MVP.
Really, I just care about getting things in front of users. I've launched and failed like 10-15 "startups" at this point. I tend to solve problems that don't exist, or that aren't correctly solved by my software.
I built out UserInsights.com exactly for this reason. And you better believe I had it in front of users at every step of the way. Probably why it's my only success to date.
Onward!