📚 **书籍出版进展顺利**：博主已完成第五章的修订，并开始着手修改作为全书核心的第六章。得益于多次创作经验和AI工具Claude的辅助，修订工作正按计划高效推进，旨在产出更高质量的内容。

💡 **AI助力高效写作**：博主分享了使用Claude提升编程效率的经验，并计划撰写更多关于利用AI工具（如Claude）进行文章创作和书籍章节修订的文章。目标是帮助用户在更短时间内产出更高质量的文本，避免低质内容。

⚠️ **担忧平台商业化**：博主对Substack平台日益增长的商业化倾向表示担忧，指出其用户体验受到订阅提示和全页广告的影响，并将其与Medium和Facebook进行对比。博主保留了在必要时迁移博客到自有域名的选项。

🚀 **活跃于社交媒体**：博主鼓励读者关注其在X（原Twitter）上的账号，以获取持续更新和“温和有趣”的内容分享，表明了在不同平台保持活跃的策略。

Published on October 29, 2025 4:10 PM GMT

Last week’s post on the history of the postrationalist movement proved quite popular. So much so that I’m pleased to welcome a bunch of new subscribers to the blog!

This is the once-a-month status update, which is mostly about progress I’ve made prepping the book I wrote for publication. I post essays about various topics most every other Wednesday that I hope you’ll enjoy.

I’m happy to say that I wrapped revisions on Chapter 5 (basically a long and much improved version of my most popular post of all time from back when I was blogging on Medium), and now I’m on to Chapter 6. Progress on Chapter 6 revisions is going smoothly, which I’m glad of since this is the fulcrum chapter of the book. I’m aided by the fact that I’ve written the content of this chapter several times over already, so it’s mostly about doing a fresh editing pass with Claude’s help.

Speaking of Claude, earlier this month I wrote a piece about how I became a more productive programmer with Claude. I’m thinking of writing another, similar post, but this time about how I use Claude to write essays and revise book chapters more efficiently while producing higher quality writing in the same or less time. I know a lot of people struggle with writing and try to use various LLMs to write for them, often with limited success. I hope I’ll be able to offer some advice to help them produce less slop.

And speaking of slop, I’ve been thinking lately about the enshittification of Substack. I’ve noticed that there’s a lot more nudges to subscribe and full page overlays encouraging me to pledge support. At first Substack was great because it was still in the attract users phase, but it’s slowly creeping towards maximizing profits, and doing it at the expense of the user experience. It’s not quite as bad as Medium yet and nowhere near as bad as Facebook, but if this keeps going I guess I’ll be looking for another place to blog. Thankfully, I’ve got control of the uncertainupdates.com domain, and I can always jump ship if it gets bad enough. Hopefully, though, Substack reverses course and stays great for a while longer yet.

But you know what hasn’t been enshittified? My Twitter account! So point yourself to X the everything app, follow me there, and you can enjoy a steady stream of mildly interesting posts, like this one:

Subscribe now