brew

310.5 g purified water heated
16.1 g guatemala beans
1.8.1 grind setting
15.9 g grounds + 0.1 g catchup
2’45” reference immersion
time from mar 16 used
259.1 g purified water poured
by 1’30”
patagonia / no dams mug used for
the full cycle.

context

listening to jasmine sun
mar 20 hard fork podcast
how she uses claude
as a writing editor,
don’t normally listen
to podcasts during
coffee time, but
this was thought
provoking

“I feel like I really cracked this over the last couple months… if I make Claude into an editor that is not just trying to grade and give feedback on my work against some genericized standard of what good writing is, but actually against my personal aspirations for writing, it can give feedback that I find much, much more helpful.

I fed Claude my entire Substack archive of the writing that I’ve previously done … I also personally write retro notes to myself after everything I publish… just a few bullet points about what was good and bad. … I wanted it to learn my taste—what I aspire to be, where I see myself falling short, what I’m proud of.

From those things, plus a bit more about my audience and goals, we co-developed a rubric… [and] it would ask things like: does this take advantage of your ‘insider anthropologist’ position? Or it would notice patterns in my writing, like moving between registers or blending policy and personal scenes.

Then I split it into phases—ideation, structure, prose, fact-checking—and told Claude: your job is to evaluate my drafts based on this criteria, not to do the writing for me, and to prompt better thinking out of me.

So when I give it a draft, it might say things like: your conclusion is just a summary, and that’s boring. In a previous piece you ended on a scene—why not try that here? And instead of inventing the scene, it asks me questions: what were you thinking in that moment? what did you feel? can you recall a specific conversation?

That kind of feedback I actually found incredibly useful… it’s about me becoming the best version of myself as a writer, with Claude pushing me to do that.”

compelling. this morning, used cursor-agent cli
to be a terminal / cli coach. similarly,
had to make it clear what the goals were.
alignment must be intentional.
so many discourses about ai
revolve around foreclosure
on creative ways
to use a reflective
partner.

taste

rich, delicious with
the lid off, first sips
satisfy, wouldn’t change
a thing

listening

inoyamaland, commissions: 1977-2000.

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