The Digital Hum
The post-mortem on the algorithms and absurdities that are slowly disassembling your soul.
The Price of Sanity
The sound of common sense screaming over the high-pitched whine of the 21st Century.
You donât need another smug guru telling you how to prompt your way to success. You need to know exactly how the relentless, expensive march of technology is genuinely screwing up your ordinary, messy human life.
This newsletter is the cynical, exhausted tour guide for the background noise of the impending technological apocalypse.
Whoâs Doing the Thinking?
We exist in a state of chronic friction. Itâs the constant, awkward grinding that happens when a promised hyper-efficient digital world rubs up against your complicated, flawed human reality.
In The Digital Hum, I donât just observe the stupidity; I dissect the mechanics of the utter shambles that occurs when machines start doing the thinking for us.
The Key Question: It isnât if the machine works, but what happens to the human when it does. If you outsource all your thinking, you eventually stop being worth paying for, and thatâs when the Hum gets really loud.
The Digital Hum is about the strategies to help you keep your miserable human judgement intact and maintain the distinction between sense and speed.
What Youâll Get Here (And Why You Should Pay)
This analysis is not pro-tech, itâs not anti-tech. Itâs just utterly exhausted. I write about both sides, putting this whole accelerating nightmare into context for the ordinary, non-tech human being.
The Diagnosis: Observations on the inescapable friction, delivered with the grim, weary finality of a delayed bus standing in the rain.
The Context: No jargon. Just the truth about the latest developments, the mundane absurdity, and the utter failure of machines to deal with reality.
The Clarity: You are paying for a dose of blackly comedic outrage that finally articulates why you feel stressed, confused, and permanently behind.
Free vs. Paid - The Price of Spite
The newsletter is split into two halves:
The Free Tease: A sharp, scathing, public essay delivered weekly.
The Full Diagnosis (Paid Subscribers Only): The anxiety-inducing breakdown that requires a subscription to read.
Why pay? Because quality, brutal clarity on this subject is rare. Your subscription is what allows this newsletter to continue without having to sell its soul for clicks, brand partnerships, or desperate attempts at algorithmic traction. You are paying for independence, spite, and the simple truth.
Who Writes This Misery?
Iâm a bloke whoâs endured forty-odd years festering inside the greasy, grinding machinery of business and technology, having served time as a CEO and CTO. I havenât just read about the stupidity; Iâve actively been part of the problem.
Iâve watched smart people get quietly overwhelmed, reduced to gibbering wrecks by tools that were supposedly designed to âhelpâ them Iâve seen entire companies speed themselves into utterly predictable irrelevance, chasing idiotic metrics that were the corporate equivalent of driving a car directly into a ditch.
Now, having extracted myself from that miserable rat race, Iâm writing about how to actually use this magnificent, terrible technology without letting it completely hollow out your life, your work, and your last remaining reserves of human sanity.
Being Cynical About AI Doesnât Mean Being Shit At Using It
I dissect the cost of these tools in The Digital Hum. But that doesnât mean you shouldnât learn how they actually work. In fact, if youâre going to contribute to this accelerating mess, at least be competent about it.
Thatâs what AI Prompt Hackers and AI Art Daily are for: practical guides to using AI tools properly, not fumbling around like the corporate idiots I spend the rest of my week writing about.
You need both: the technical skill and the cognitive sanity check.
p.s If you can be bothered to read it, I have a Disclaimer. It says that Iâm not responsible for your decisions, you are!
