Notes from June 2026

Chicago’s weather is pretty lousy most of the year, but when it’s nice, it’s very nice. June blessed the city with dozens of idyllic days. But don’t worry—I still spent most of the time inside on the computer. Things I did I launched my first big project at Ghost: automations! It’s still in beta, but it’s one of the biggest projects I’ve led. If you happen to be a Ghost publisher, please try it out and let me know what you think! For the sixteenth issue of the Taper online magazine, I visualized time by breaking each unit into sixteenths. For example, as I write this, I’m about 6 sixteenths through the hour. Like every Taper submission, my work had to be under 2048 bytes. Links about AI ethics Generative AI continues to, mostly, be a force for bad in this world: “If AI is going to 10x our productivity across the board, that means that I should be able to produce the same amount of output by midday on Monday that, in the before times, would have taken all week. So can I just take…