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HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
Christine Whitmarsh's popular podcast Your Daily Writing Habit (nearly 1,600 episodes produced) was about helping writers build a writing practice. Now, she's back with a new show - HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself. HumanPrint is about protecting that practice — and yourself — in a very different landscape. It's still the same thread: voice, language, identity, and the daily choices that shape who you are. I'm just picking it up with a new subplot woven in: AI. This is a…
Episodes
- HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
Make More Things Possible: A HumanPrint Interview with Emma Klint
What if the most interesting use of AI isn’t doing the same work faster, but making entirely different things possible? In this episode of HumanPrint, I talk…
- HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
AI as Scaffolding, Not a Substitute: A HumanPrint Interview with Tracy Albinson
What happens when you stop asking AI to work like everyone else’s tool and start building it around the way your own brain actually works? In this episode of…
- HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
Replacing AI Fear With Fun: A HumanPrint Interview with Cookie
For the first guest interview on HumanPrint, I’m talking with Cookie Young of The Neon Vegas — marketing heretic, synthetic era image provocateur, and boutique…
- HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
Episode 18: Ship Anyway
What are you waiting to create while the rest of the world argues about AI? In this episode, you’ll examine how uncertainty, criticism, and shifting standards…
- HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
Episode 17: Before AI / After AI
Has AI actually improved your writing process, or just changed it? This episode gives you a practical way to compare how you worked before generative AI with…
- HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
Episode 16: Head Down, Eyes on Your Own Paper
How do you protect your creative headspace when everybody seems to have an opinion about how you should write? In this episode, you’ll learn how to separate…
- HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
Episode 15: Set the Terms of Your Social Media Presence
What this episode is about You can disagree with everything a platform is doing and still have your subscribers, income, archive, and professional network…
- HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
Episode 14: Put the Torch Down
What this episode is about Spotting AI writing has become an internet sport. Someone sees an em dash or a tidy structure and starts a forensic investigation…
- HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
Episode 13: Freedom of Creative Process
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…
- HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
Episode 12: What Do YOU Want to Write About?
What this episode is about WHY gives your writing fuel. HOW gives it a voice. WHAT is where most people lose the thread, chasing trends and algorithms instead…
- HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
Episode 11: How Do You Sound Like You?
What this episode is about Every time another "how to spot AI writing" post shows up, my response is the same: how do I know YOU wrote it? Before you accuse…
- HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
Episode 10: Why Do You Write?
What this episode is about I started writing at seven and spent most of my childhood thinking of it as a talent, not a compulsion. Then a life-and-death…
- HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
Episode 9: Panic is a Terrible Editor
What this episode is about In May 2025, the Chicago Sun-Times ran a summer reading list with ten books that didn't exist — fabricated by AI, submitted by a…
- HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
Episode 8: Words as Pixels of the Human Experience
What this episode is about Each data point represents one pixel of the human experience. That's a stats idea, but it's also a writing idea — the word is the…
- HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
Episode 7: Who's Actually Driving This Thing
What this episode is about In 2024, Air Canada's chatbot gave a customer the wrong information about bereavement fares — and when he filed a claim, the airline…
- HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
Approval Voice Versus Alive Voice
What this episode is about This episode starts with scoliosis research and statistics, which may or may not be what you signed up for. But it's…
- HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
How to Hear Yourself Again
What this episode is about People know when they're hearing Bob Dylan. The question is, do you know when you're hearing yourself? A lot of people have never…
- HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
The Urge to Fix the Weird Parts
What this episode is about AI has become the most rigid, literal editor in the world—determined to stamp out your unique writing messiness every time you color…
- HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
What Convenience Is Costing You
AI can help organize, summarize, brainstorm, and sharpen your thinking. The trouble starts when the tool begins making decisions that belong to you. In this…
- HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
The Pretty Sentences Are Lying to You
Polished writing used to suggest effort. Now AI can produce it in seconds, which means “sounds good” is no longer enough. In this episode of HumanPrint…
- HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
When Your Writing Stops Sounding Like You
What happens when your writing still sounds polished, but no longer sounds like you? In this first episode of HumanPrint, Christine Whitmarsh introduces the…