The threads of my life
This has been a really busy year, in a lot of different ways. This post is an attempt to record the important things that have been happening for me. A Thread I want to start with a place rather than … Read more …
I’d like you to meet Clara
Back in September I wrote I uploaded my life into AI. Twenty-seven years of blog posts, fed into ChatGPT, which could then see the whole arc of who I’ve been throughout my life. I called it “strangely fitting” that the … Read more …
I couldn’t delete it
When I wrote “Hello 2026 – and goodbye to this blog” last month, I genuinely believed the next step was deleting this blog entirely. A clean ending. A line drawn. Nearly three decades of writing, archived privately, removed from public … Read more …
Hello 2026 – and goodbye to this blog
A New Chapter: Why I’m Closing This Blog After a little more than 27 years of writing openly about my life and my views on this blog, I’m making a difficult but necessary decision: I’m closing Alan’s Journey permanently. This … Read more …
Twenty Seven Years Later
Twenty seven years ago, I sat alone at my desk. I’d built a small personal website, and I’d written the first entry of what would become a lifelong habit: My first online journal post. It was 27 years ago today. It’s … Read more …
The 2025 Manifesto
Back in 2014 I wrote The Writer’s Manifesto – Alan’s Journey. It was relevant then. It captured what I understood about myself at the time and helped set the tone for how I wanted to move forward. Eleven years later, … Read more …
I uploaded my life into AI
Back in 1998 I started writing online, before “blogging” was even a thing. At the time, it was just ‘online journaling’ – me recording my thoughts and experiences so I wouldn’t have to keep retelling the same tired old stories. … Read more …
Springsteen & Me
Bruce Springsteen has been part of my life since 1984. His music followed me through different chapters – sometimes loud and defiant, sometimes quietly in the background. I never thought much about why he resonated so strongly. He just did. … Read more …
How AI has changed my blogging process
For the past almost 30 years – since I started in 1998 – writing a blog post was a fairly typical routine for me. It usually started with an idea, a little spark of something I wanted to explore or … Read more …
Copying the mind, but – where’s the spirit?
In my post, My Digital Ghost: Hopes, Horrors, and a Way Forward, I wrote about how fascinating I find the idea of digital immortality – where you could upload your consciousness, your memories, maybe everything that makes you you, and live … Read more …
My Digital Ghost: Hopes, Horrors, and a Way Forward
The idea of living on after our time is up – it’s something that’s been floating around in my head for years. In this case, I’m talking about the idea of ‘digital immortality’, where you upload your consciousness, your memories, … Read more …
My deep dive into the AI whirlwind
Let’s have a chat about this whole AI (Artificial Intelligence) thing that’s got the world in a spin ever since ChatGPT came out in December 2022 (see me talking about that over here: My new friend, the ‘chatGPT’ AI). Following … Read more …
Well hi. It’s been a few years…
My last post was in December 2022, and here it is March 2025. I know… it’s been a while. But the good news is that I’m still around, and everything’s fine. Wife is great, daughter is great – she turns … Read more …