HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
Aug 6, 2026 · 17 min · 11 segments
**What this episode is about** Substack just partnered with Pangram to let readers scan your posts and get a percentage estimate of how much was human-written. LinkedIn added a "Seems like AI slop"…
Christine WhitmarshHostAnd that question is, how do you write? What happens between the first thought entering your mind and the finished piece appearing in front of a reader? Where does your thinking happen? What helps you develop it? What interrupts it? What strengthens it? And where in your own process do you draw the line between receiving useful assistance and handing over something you needed to do yourself? That process, all of it, belongs to you.
Because a writer writes, but a writer also might talk, dictate, outline, research, interview, rearrange, cut, rewrite, stare at the same paragraph for 45 minutes, call someone and explain the whole idea out loud, and then return to the paragraph and finally understand what they were trying to say.
Some have to write several meandering pages before they discover their subject.
And some of them, you know, we open a blank document and start working without any idea what the piece is going to be.
And that question is, how do you write? What happens between the first thought entering your mind and the finished piece appearing in front of a reader? Where does your thinking happen? What helps you develop it? What interrupts it? What strengthens it? And where in your own process do you draw the line between receiving useful assistance and handing over something you needed to do yourself? That process, all of it, belongs to you.
Because a writer writes, but a writer also might talk, dictate, outline, research, interview, rearrange, cut, rewrite, stare at the same paragraph for 45 minutes, call someone and explain the whole idea out loud, and then return to the paragraph and finally understand what they were trying to say.
Some have to write several meandering pages before they discover their subject.
And some of them, you know, we open a blank document and start working without any idea what the piece is going to be.
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