Homer’s spice rack: A metaphor

📚 On Reading in the Age of Generative AI

Why do we think “quite good” is good enough?

Clark Boyd
6 min readJan 25, 2023

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“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” — Flannery O’Connor

Reader, I changed the title of this post soon after I started writing it.

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Clark Boyd

Tech/business writer, CEO (Novela), lecturer (Columbia), and data analyst. >500k views on Medium. I used to be with it, but then they changed what ‘it’ was.