Katie Parrott

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I Tried AI Coding Tools. Now I Want to Learn to Code.

1 month ago | every.to | Katie Parrott

Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. One night last month, instead of booting up my Switch for another thrilling session of Stardew Valley, I decided I wanted to play a different kind of game. I decided I wanted to build an app. It sounds crazy to say that so casually. Sure, I’m just going to throw together a quick MVP. I don’t write code. I don’t read code. But yeah, why not? Two hours later, I had a minimum viable product ready to ship.
AI Turned Me Into a Content Agency of One

2 months ago | every.to | Katie Parrott

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The Medium is the Video Essay

Jan 5, 2025 | katieparrott.substack.com | Katie Parrott

Editor’s Note: It’s been a minute since I’ve hit “send” on this newsletter. I’ve been off focusing on spinning up my freelance biz and launching my new column at Every, Working Overtime. (If you haven’t checked it out yet, it’s where I’m exploring all the big, thorny questions about work, technology, and meaning that keep me up at night. Highly recommend.)That said, this newsletter isn’t going anywhere.
The Once and Future History of Knowledge Work

Nov 22, 2024 | msn.com | Katie Parrott

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The Once and Future History of Knowledge Work

Nov 21, 2024 | every.to | Katie Parrott

Artificial intelligence is changing the value of knowledge work—something that Katie Parrott, as a knowledge worker herself, has been grappling with. So it’s a fitting topic of exploration for the debut piece of her column, Working Overtime, in which she’ll examine the historical impact of technology through the lens of workers and the systems they participate in.
I Hired ChatGPT as My Career Coach

Oct 6, 2024 | every.to | Katie Parrott

When Katie Parrott lost her job, she turned to an unlikely source for career guidance: ChatGPT. In this piece, Katie details her experiment using AI as a career coach, exploring its strengths and limitations in providing originality, accountability, structure, empathy, and clarity.
On the Value of "Specific Content"

Sep 29, 2024 | katieparrott.substack.com | Katie Parrott

Editor’s Note: Hi! I don’t plan to publish on the weekends, as a rule. But I saw this thing on The Bad Website, and then I wrote about it, and now here you are, reading it. I want to write an essay about the concepts of “timely” vs. “timeless” content, and this would be an example in the “timely” category. Sometimes you just see a thing, and you have to post about it. Something that I’m learning about this style of writing is that it demands extreme confidence.
My Diagnosis

Sep 26, 2024 | katieparrott.substack.com | Katie Parrott

Three years ago this summer, I jumped out of a U-Haul on the New Mexico interstate and ran into the desert thinking I was going to meet Jesus. I took my laptops and my identification down to my expired passport, and disappeared into the fields outside Albuquerque. My mom, who was driving the U-Haul, was not a fan.
Everything I Know About Content Strategy I Learned by Pitching Startups

Sep 24, 2024 | katieparrott.substack.com | Katie Parrott

My first job out of undergrad, once I had disabused myself of the illusion that a lucrative career awaited me in academia, was writing pitch decks for startups. Between 2014 and 2017, I wrote decks for more than 300 different companies. If it was trendy, I wrote a deck about it, from Google Glass to SoLoMo to the Internet of Things.
Katie Parrott | Substack

Sep 23, 2024 | substack.com | Katie Parrott

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