• Why we need a better critical theory of LLMs

• On playing well and making yourself heard

• Feeding thought shrapnel and fragments to LLMs

• The Prompt Theory: the first genuinely impressive and entertaining AI generated video

• The Tea Ceremony of Writing: What We Risk Losing with AI

• LLMs can be used to help us go deeper into creative difficulty

• Why it’s not a bad thing for academic writing to be difficult

• The epistemopathic dimension of writing with LLMs

• Generative AI and the challenge of unbidden thoughts

• Generative AI and thriving in creative darkness

• Finding joy in academic writing: understanding the role of the tools we use

• Generative AI and the creative confusion of academic writers

• The lure of machine writing and the value of getting stuck

• Thriving in Creative Darkness: Free Association and LLM Collaboration

• Could Claude generate an infinite number of ways to eat a mango without eating it?

• How to free associate

• How to enjoy writing #17: creative confidence means accepting the tensions in how you think

• How to enjoy writing #14: using generative AI as an interlocutor

• How to enjoy writing #12: Claude’s ecology of ideas self-assessment tool

• How to enjoy writing #11: cultivating an ecology of ideas

• How to enjoy writing #9: Identifying and valuing your encounters with ideas

• How to enjoy writing #8: my AI collaborator offers initial reflections on the series so far

• How to enjoy writing #7: Knowing when (and why) to stop writing

• How to enjoy writing #5: keep trying to say what you’re trying to say

• How to enjoy writing #4: embracing creative non-linearity

• Are you a map-maker or a bungee jumper with your writing?

• Inspiration is the indolent indulgence of the dabbler

• On the machinic qualities of human interaction and the human qualities of the machine

• Human cognition meets machine cognition, human cognition gets better

• Which of the three forms of creativity is GAI capable of?

• A glimpse into the human/AI hybrid powered future of advertising

• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on creativity and routine

• Nick Cave on creating on the edge of disaster

• Nick Cave on loss and improvisation

• What does it feel like to be inspired?

• Ralph Waldo Emerson’s self-reliance amidst the epistemic chaos of platform capitalism

• Cybernetics and the dual-edged sword of disciplinarity

• Programming as practice

• Losing yourself in Westeros

• The challenge of being ready to think

• Xerox PARC and the challenge of building a community of inquiry

• The imposter syndrome of the young Neil Gaiman

• the backstory to creative work

• The challenges to creativity in higher education

• Creativity as Apophatic

• Why does the iPhone matter to us?

• “You work your day doing something you’re not proud of, and you decompress at night with television and whisky”

• Jerome Bruner’s six essential conditions of creativity

• Improvisation in academic life

• Some auto-ethnographic thoughts on the phenomenology of writing

• Non-linear creativity