Writing

you're not writing for the reader anymore

the primary audience for professional content in 2026 is not a human. it's the AI that runs before the human shows up.

karl taylor

4 minute read

<p>the last time you wrote something — a LinkedIn post, a thread, a research note — you probably had a human reader somewhere in the back of your mind. someone who would scroll past, stop, skim, maybe click. that mental model is now outdated.</p>

Perspectives, Change

I thought how strange it was, the myriad of events that had brought me to this very place, and as I drove back, I couldn’t help but reflect on just how rocky they had been, too. As I walked back up the stairs to my apartment, I realized that it would be some time before I could ever live in a place like that, but I knew that I could, and it felt like that mattered.

karl taylor

4 minute read

<p>I’ve spent just enough time exploring my family history, to know that despite being <em>in</em> the United States as early as some time in the 1600s, not too many of us every really stuck around somewhere for long enough to be <em>from</em> there.</p>

How I Learned To Love Pulp or:; On The Occasion Of The Birth Of Lewis Fry Richardson.

karl taylor

12 minute read

<p>“He would peek into the curtained windows, or, climbing upon the roof, peer down the black depths of the chimney in vain endeavor to solve the unknown wonders that lay within those strong walls.” <strong>Edward Rice Burroughs</strong>, <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/78/78-h/78-h.htm#chap06">Tarzan of the Apes</a></p>