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The Cheapest Genius I've Ever Used
I first heard the name DeepSeek the way I hear most tech headlines, half-scrolling past it on my phone while doing something else entirely, catching only the part where a Chinese AI startup had apparently rattled the entire industry and wiped a genuinely alarming amount of value off some very famous tech stocks in a single day. I remember thinking it sounded like exactly the kind of story that gets overblown within a week, filing it away as background noise and going back to whatever I was actually doing. Then it kept coming back. Friends mentioned it in passing. Writers I follow started comparing notes on it. And I kept nodding along in conversations about a tool I had never actually opened myself, which eventually started to feel a little ridiculous even to me.
By Zohan Khan3 months ago in Journal
The Best Grammar Checking Tools for Medium Writers in 2026 (Tested on My Own Articles)
I used to think grammar checkers were a nice-to-have. Then I republished an 8-minute article with a glaring "their" instead of "there" in the second paragraph, watched the read-through rate quietly drop, and never made that mistake again. On Medium, where readers decide in the first three lines whether you're worth their time, a sloppy sentence isn't a small thing. It's the difference between someone finishing your piece and someone bouncing to the next tab.
By Zohan Khan3 months ago in Journal
Experience Is the Only Teacher I Ever Had
Experience Is the Only Teacher I Ever Had I used to think advice was enough. My father would sit me down, my teachers would lecture me, my friends would warn me — "don't do this," "be careful of that," "you'll regret it." I nodded every single time. I even believed I understood. But understanding words and understanding life turned out to be two completely different things.
By Zohan Khan3 months ago in Journal
I Let AI Run My Life For A Week
No decisions. No second-guessing. Just me, doing whatever the machine told me to do. It started as a joke. I was scrolling through my notes app one night, looking at a to-do list I hadn't touched in three days, and I thought — what if I just stopped deciding things for myself? What if, for one week, every choice I made — what to eat, how to work, what to write, even how to spend my evenings — came from AI instead of from me?
By Zohan Khan3 months ago in Journal
The Afternoon I Stopped Pretending My Marriage Was Fine. AI-Generated.
For about a year I told everyone that things were fine. My wife and I were not fine, and I think we both knew it, but saying it out loud felt like signing something I could not take back. So I did what a lot of people probably do. I read articles late at night on my phone, I half listened to friends who had been through their own separations, and I built up a picture in my head of what divorce would look like. Almost none of that picture turned out to be right.
By Josh Maraney3 months ago in Journal
