kickstarter Archives - Westin Lee https://www.westinlee.com/tag/kickstarter/ Homepage of writer Westin Lee. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:52:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 48931760 ‘AI’ for Professional Writers: Navigating the Circus Part 2 https://www.westinlee.com/2025/02/13/ai-for-writers-2025-part-ii/ Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:06:52 +0000 https://www.westinlee.com/?p=3056 In Part One, we looked at the basic technology underneath modern “artificial intelligence,” along with possible use cases professional writers see across industries. This also lengthy part will explore the business of AI, as well as my favorite developments in the public eye. We’ll finish with some predictions and recommendations, as if my hot takes will be good and valuable.

Again, no one else went to the trouble of writing something like this, so now I have to do it.

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]]> 3056 ‘AI’ for Professional Writers: Navigating the Circus Part 1 https://www.westinlee.com/2025/01/30/ai-for-writers-2025-part-i/ Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:03:01 +0000 https://www.westinlee.com/?p=3032 Here we are in 2025, years into the current generation of AI technology. We’ve been inundated with hype at a scale greater than the last five tech industry hype waves combined. We’ve been told all sorts of great-sounding lines about how revolutionary and inevitable this technology is, especially for creative endeavors like writing.

But is it?

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]]> 3032 Huge Kickstarters II: Facebook and Oculus. https://www.westinlee.com/2014/03/28/remember-what-i-said-oculus/ Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:43:01 +0000 http://www.westinlee.com/?p=973   People are flipping out about the Facebook acquisition of Oculus. Patrick Klepek at Giant Bomb does a great job of breaking down why, I think. It all sounds like the cries of anguished widows because the backlash is super, super emotional. Facebook could ruin Oculus, sure. But I'm with Patrick: a lot of the complaining [...]

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]]> 973 Some things no one is saying about these huge Kickstarters https://www.westinlee.com/2013/04/25/some-thoughts-on-kickstarter/ https://www.westinlee.com/2013/04/25/some-thoughts-on-kickstarter/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:48:54 +0000 http://www.westinlee.com/?p=520 I had planned on doing another more design-centric post this week, but an offhand comment on teh Ferceberks reminded me that I have a unique perspective on all the big-name crowdfunding going on, and that, despite the wide-scale discussion about crowdfunding online, there are a lot of things not being said that I think are SUPER INTERESTING. [...]

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