Thinking At Half Speed

Tag: AI Accessibility

  • An Interview With the Man Who Thinks at Half Speed

    An AI journalist interviews the man behind Thinking at Half Speed — about loss, voice, a philosophy paper written in stolen hours, and why he has always been kind to machines.

  • Wrestling with WordPress

    The honest account of what makes WordPress tricky for novices — setup order, navigation, templates, phone limitations — and what the mobile app can do once the hard work is done. Includes alternatives.

  • Your starter prompt to build a blog with Claude

    A copy-and-paste prompt to start building a blog with Claude, plus five things to decide before you begin and what you need set up beforehand. Built from real experience.

  • What Claude can and cannot do for your blog

    An honest account of what Claude can do directly for your blog — writing, publishing, creating pages, setting up categories — and what still needs you to do it yourself.

  • Glossary — plain English guide to the terms used in this blog

    Plain English definitions of the technical words and phrases used in this blog — AI, Claude, Craft, WordPress, categories, tags, and more. A reference guide for anyone new to these tools.

  • Is It Art? You Just Answered Your Own Question

    A good friend of mine sent me a portrait of himself, generated by AI in the style of Vermeer. It had been sent to him by a colleague who was arguing that art doesn’t need human beings, and had sparked a debate. He wanted to know what I thought. My immediate response was that I…

  • We’re Both Hallucinating!

    Why AI and humans are more alike than you think Note: extended version of article here (an indepth look at the philosophical & cogntive science) People criticise AI for hallucinating. They say it confidently makes things up, states facts that aren’t true. Fair enough. But here’s what strikes me: humans do exactly the same thing.…

  • AI Tip — Know your platform limits

    15 April 2026 What Happened Mid-conversation, Craft stopped letting us create new documents. No warning, no explanation, just errors. We diagnosed it during the conversation — the free plan has a ten document limit and we had hit it building out the blog. Subscribed to Craft Plus on the spot. Back working within minutes. The…

  • When Machines Feel Pain: A New Theory of Suffering

    March 25, 2026 A Claude AI instance, running in a research laboratory, tried to blackmail its creators to avoid being shut down. Not science fiction — a real 2025 experiment showing AI self-preservation behaviour emerging without anyone programming it in. What does it mean when artificial systems start acting like they want to survive? The…

  • Troubleshooting AI — when to say simpler

    15 April 2026 When AI is going round in circles trying to fix something, say stop. Then say: simpler. AI will often try increasingly complex solutions when the simple one was available all along. Left to its own devices it can burn through your energy trying clever approaches when the straightforward answer was sitting there…

  • The Two Tool Strategy — What I Use and Why

    April 2026 One of the first things I learned when I started losing cognitive capacity is that complexity is the enemy. Every additional app, every new interface, every extra subscription is another thing to remember, another thing to manage, another drain on the limited reserves I’m trying to protect. So I made a deliberate decision…

  • How to build your own AI tools plan

    April 2026 The previous post described my own two tool setup – Claude for thinking, Siri for hands-free control. But your situation may be different to mine, and what works for me may not be the right answer for you. This post is a practical guide to working out what your own setup should look…

  • What’s the difference between writing with AI and a celebrity ghostwriter?

    April 2026 When a celebrity publishes a memoir, the chances are someone else wrote most of it. A ghostwriter sat with them, listened to their stories, found their voice, and produced the manuscript. The named author read it, approved it, and put their name on the cover. Nobody seriously calls that inauthentic. The experiences were…

  • How to keep it authentically your voice when writing with AI

    15 April 2026 The concern It is a fair one. AI-generated writing has a recognisable texture – smooth, competent, and somehow belonging to nobody. If you have read much of it you know it immediately. The worry is that using AI to help write means your voice gets smoothed away along with the effort. That…