When AI Accidentally Writes a Self‑Help Chapter (…and It’s Actually Good)

I was working on Chapter 1 of my “AI for Newbies” book — you know, the chapter that’s supposed to explain what AI actually is — when my AI assistant suddenly veered off the road and wrote… a full‑blown self‑help chapter.

Not a paragraph.
Not a tangent.
A chapter.

Title and everything:

“Picking Up the Pieces: A Practical Guide to Mending Broken Expectations.”

And here’s the wild part:
It was good.
Like, “this belongs in a different book entirely” good.

And the irony? I was trying to explain what AI is, and it responded by showing me — a pattern‑matcher that sometimes grabs the wrong pattern… and somehow lands on something beautiful.

Does anyone blog anymore?

Podcasts, audiobooks, TikTok reels, Discord chats — everywhere you look, the internet is louder, faster, and more “immersive.” Meanwhile, blogging feels like something we all did back when flip phones were still a thing. (Fun fact: I even once launched a memeless media site. Shockingly, it didn’t take off.)

But is there still a place for blogs? For posts like this one?

Do you blog? I started [LAPSE... brain dead] back in 2007. I was steady for a while, drifted away, came back, drifted again — and now I’m finally in a semi-regular groove again.

A big part of that comeback has been using AI tools (Copilot, Gemini, etc.) to review posts, clean up sentences, or help me draft ideas. I still write in my own voice — AI just gives me a jumpstart when I need it.

And that’s where my new book comes in: