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Other things that should not go in the clickforcharity blog really... although one did already.


The Sound That Cuts a Sentence

6 Apr 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Andy Savage

You’re halfway through a sentence, not the kind you can restart easily either—one of those winding ones, where the meaning only really arrives at the end. You are gradually constructing it, step by step, and the other person is keeping pace. You can...

AI Thought Capture and the Ancient Art of Not Indulging

28 Mar 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Andy Savage

We live in an age where our thoughts are being harvested at a level never seen before. Every prompt we type into an AI, every personal dilemma we share, every late-night worry or creative idea we feed into these systems is quietly building something...

The Loneliness of Truth: Why the Crowded Path Is the Emptiest One

24 Mar 2026 5 minute read 2 comments Andy Savage

Being surrounded by people can be lonelier than being alone. Walking alone in search of truth can feel more connected than most people ever experience. Most people are terrified of solitude. They fill their lives with noise, people, distraction—any...

Who Will Control AI?

13 Mar 2026 3 minute read 1 comment Andy Savage

The real danger is the human desire for control. People increasingly talk about AI as if it were the enemy. It isn’t. AI is only power—like fire or electricity—and power depends entirely on the hands that wield it. The true enemies of humanity hav...

The Em Dash—A Mark of Skill, Not Automation

26 Feb 2026 1 minute read 4 comments Andy Savage

The em dash—that versatile punctuation mark—is often misunderstood or avoided. Many writers, unfamiliar with its proper usage, either shy away from it entirely or use it incorrectly. As a result, it has become a tool mainly for those with a strong co...

AI as the Great Permissionless Leveler

4 Feb 2026 3 minute read 1 comment Andy Savage

Technology can be used to free us or to enslave us, and ultimately the choice is ours. For most of modern history, having a good idea wasn’t enough. To get an idea noticed, you needed permission. Permission usually came disguised as money, connection...

The Barocracy of Education, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love School!

24 Jan 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Andy Savage

A Revelation! Find out what school really means. You will be surprised. This isn't an article about linguistics. It is an article about why we hate learning things we would otherwise love. It is about the "Barocracy"—the rule of the heavy, the dull,...

Before You Pay for an AI Course, Try This Instead!

20 Jan 2026 5 minute read 0 comments Andy Savage

Ai, Complexity, And The Illusion Of Expertise The conversation that sparked this article was informal, scattered, and half-typed on Telegram. That feels appropriate, because the idea itself is not something that arrived fully formed. It emerged gradu...

AI Slop, Algorithmic Loops, and the Quiet Loss of Human Taste

4 Jan 2026 2 minute read 1 comment Andy Savage

We’re increasingly using AI to rank web pages, then using AI to tell us what to write so that those pages will rank well. People talk about “AI slop” as if slop were something new, as if a golden age of thoughtful writing has just been drowned by...

Answers Without Questions: On the Right and Wrong Ways to Use AI

1 Jan 2026 3 minute read 1 comment Andy Savage

If I show you the number 201, does it mean anything to you? It could be the result of 5 × 40 + 1 or it could be the final line of a proof that took months and is only understood by five people on Earth. It could be a transcription error. As an answer...