How I got paid for free guides I wrote about an AI tool
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.
Writing
Essays and field notes on AI-assisted building.
Originals live on Substack, mirrored here so the archive lives on a URL I control.
Whose computer are you building on?
AI tools are the means of production now, and most of us are renting them.
Cheap AI Was a Sale. The Bill Is Coming.
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
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
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)
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
A note about a line I have had in my bio for months, and what an AI agent showed me this week.