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title: "Writing"
description: "Essays and field notes on AI-assisted building."
url: https://jeffkazzee.dev/blog/
---

# Writing

- [How I got paid for free guides I wrote about an AI tool](https://jeffkazzee.dev/blog/a-company-paid-me-for-guides-i-gave-away/) (2026-08-22): Zo Computer licensed my free beginner guides for real money. How publishing free documentation under your own name turns into income, and how to do it yourself.
- [Whose computer are you building on?](https://jeffkazzee.dev/blog/whose-computer-are-you-building-on/) (2026-06-09): AI tools are the means of production now, and most of us are renting them.
- [Cheap AI Was a Sale. The Bill Is Coming.](https://jeffkazzee.dev/blog/cheap-ai-was-a-sale-the-bill-is-coming/) (2026-06-01): I run my work on AI on a low income. Here is why the price is about to turn, and why I'm not panicking.
- [Five Zo Cookbook recipes worth running tonight](https://jeffkazzee.dev/blog/five-zo-cookbook-recipes-worth-running/) (2026-05-26): Five Zo Computer recipes worth running tonight: a creeping bill, a phishing email, a school form on the counter, your mom's bills, a tired week.
- [How to learn with AI without getting dumber](https://jeffkazzee.dev/blog/how-to-learn-with-ai-without-getting/) (2026-05-26): A four-step workshop on using AI to build a skill instead of outsourcing the effort.
- [How to self-host any app without writing code (and what breaks the first time)](https://jeffkazzee.dev/blog/how-to-self-host-any-app-without/) (2026-05-14): The exact prompt I used to install an open-source design tool on my own cloud server, the three things that broke, and one chat message that fixed each.
- [Tech's silence on ICE is not neutral](https://jeffkazzee.dev/blog/techs-silence-on-ice-is-not-neutral/) (2026-05-13): A note about a line I have had in my bio for months, and what an AI agent showed me this week.