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Ash McGrath

@ashmcgrathwrites.bsky.social

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Writer, author, AI optimist 🌈 📚 I publish bi-weekly essays about creativity, AI, and other weird corners of humanity. Subscribe to Thought Partner for the 🧃 thought-partner.kit.com #AICommunity #WritingCommunity

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Ash McGrath @ashmcgrathwrites.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

ChatGPT's new image analysis feature is insane. I loaded a random image of an air purifier and asked it to create an owner's manual for me. 🤯 Single-shot prompt. wow. #AICommunity

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Ash McGrath @ashmcgrathwrites.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

"Hobo Nickel" is the name for American five-cent coins that were hand-engraved by homeless people during the Great Depression of 1930s. A homeless man used these engravings to increase the value of an ordinary coin, creating small works of art that they could exchange for food or other services.

5 cent coins with engravings of skulls and other art.

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Ash McGrath @ashmcgrathwrites.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

What I’m reading on this chilly Sunday. 📚💙

Copy of “The World According to Joan Didion” by Evelyn McDonnell

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Ash McGrath @ashmcgrathwrites.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

How do people build audiences around their specific brand of weird? How do they find their tribe that’s says “yes, you, give me more”. Here’s a sneak peak of the creators I’ll be showcasing in my next essay: “Do What You Love, But Solve for Distribution” #creativity #writingcommunity

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Ash McGrath @ashmcgrathwrites.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Not a bad way to spend the morning.

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Ash McGrath @ashmcgrathwrites.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Back to the library you go tomorrow. Thank you for your wisdom. 💙📚 Support your local library, support #thirdspaces. #BookSky #writingcommunity

A stack of books: Margaret Atwood: Burning Questions, Donald Hall: Essays After Eighty, Wings of Red: James W. Jennings, Brave New Words: Salman Kahn.

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Ash McGrath @ashmcgrathwrites.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Martha Stewart on the Cover of Sports Illustrated

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Ash McGrath @ashmcgrathwrites.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Next up on nightly reads with my boys. They’re 7 and 10, and my hope is to pass a love of words on to them. We just finished The Hatchet, before that it was Treasure Island. We’ve also got White Fang on the list. Any other classics I should include? 💙📚