Robert Solow said something in 1987 that feels written for 2026: "You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics." We are living the AI version of it right now.
Writing is Now 20% of a Writer’s Job
The Writing Is the Easy Part Now A writer friend of mine, who once tasted critical acclaim before slipping off the literary map, called me recently to ask whether AI had killed his career. His sales had flatlined. He gestured at the Amazon charts, thick with clean, readable, aggressively optimistic titles. "Is it the algorithm?... Continue Reading →