Tag: Personal Essays

My 90-Day ChatGPT Experiment Bottomed Out at $12.43. Quitting Saved My Income.

My 90-Day ChatGPT Experiment ended in disappointment. The dashboard didn’t just report a loss; it reported a failure of soul.

$12.43.

That was the total payout for seven days of “peak productivity.” Seven articles, 12,000 words, zero typos, and enough SEO keywords to choke a search engine. I had spent three months building a “content machine” that was technically perfect and fundamentally unreadable.

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The Case for Ordinary Proof (And Why AI Can’t Fake the Chair)

The short essay that started all of this is on Medium. The 3-minute version is on YouTube.

In 2026, the detail you’d cut is the detail that earns. Here’s why.

Why the smallest details in personal writing are doing the most work — and why most writers, including me until recently, have been ignoring them.

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