The Seven Sins of Complaining About Artificial Intelligence
Every complaint about AI theft, laziness, or moral collapse turns out, on inspection, to be a complaint about something else — nostalgia for a gatekept industry, status panic dressed up as ethics, labor romanticism for jobs nobody actually wanted. This piece runs the seven excuses down one by one and asks the question underneath all of them: are you protecting humanity, or protecting yourself? Complaining is not a position. It's a delay tactic.
There Is Only the Doing: “How to find the middle ground between 'AI will save the world' and 'AI will destroy the world"
The argument over whether AI will save the world or destroy it is mostly a way to feel certain about something without doing anything about it — for the people actually building this technology, adoption was never a debate, it was a job requirement. JB argues the real fight isn't over whether to use AI, but over the unglamorous work everyone skips: who owns the data, who gets paid, what guardrails get built before the next wave outruns them. Certainty is cheap. The doing isn't.
Why Gen X Is the Perfect Generation to Adopt AI As Artists & Professionals
Generation X learned the world through card catalogs and rotary phones, then spent every year since teaching itself the next machine — dial-up, cloud, now the ones that write back. That amphibian training, not any credential, is the real argument here: it's why Gen X is positioned to lead AI adoption without either worshipping the tool or refusing it. The essay works through what that leadership looks like in creative practice, and in the unglamorous, unavoidable work of getting a company's data honest before any of it can be automated.