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The Apple Macintosh at 40 – and my own Mac history at 24

Cast your mind back to the year 2000. When the new century began, I was 13 years old. My interests: fantasy writing and computers. The Apple Macintosh may have come into the world two years before I was born, but it burst into my life that year – and played a

The Apple Macintosh at 40 – and my own Mac history at 24
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Generative AI will not make you a better writer – it will destroy creative writing as a way of expressing the human experience

'People, not machines, made the Renaissance.'

Generative AI will not make you a better writer – it will destroy creative writing as a way of expressing the human experience
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A month away from social media

On October the 31st 2017, I signed out of my personal Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn accounts, and I didn’t sign back in until the 1st of December. Here’s what I learned. Preface Please don’t read this as advice for how you should modify your social media

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The wrong side of history

For the first time in almost twenty years, the Mac platform is facing an existential threat. How we respond to this threat may shape the future of computing as we know it. The future isn’t bright – the future is compromised. One of my earliest memories is of sitting in

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Ulysses 2.6 review

The best professional writing app for OS X and iOS – no, not Scrivener – just received a major new release. Here’s an overview of the new features, and why it should be in every writer’s toolbox. Introduction to Ulysses Ulysses is a Markdown environment for writing, with robust electronic

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