//01 Hot Type Cold Type Lead Type Bold Type I'm a fourth-generation printer, graphic designer, and the youngest person in my family to have set hot metal type. For someone as someone whose first exposure to a computer was my father's i386 and spent their life primarily in front of a screen; whose primary hobbies have been, for better or worse, largely computer-oriented, and whose entire career has been spent pushing pixels, moving mice, and tapping keys: I can admit that I've been remarkably late in adopting LLMs into my workflow. This year, I've had two career-firsts within the first six months: In February, I got a "perfect" performance review: on every metric, I exceeded expectations. 2 months later, I was included in a broad reduction-in-force across the marketing department finding myself unemployed for the first time in my adult life. Make of that what you will. I've decided to start writing a blog for a few reasons, and it felt appropriate to use this inaugural "hello world" post to both lay those...