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“But Acrobat was the only software I was allowed to use to review page layouts.”
“This led to my first decidedly inconvenient writing routine.”
“I need the internet to research.”
“But I had no plans to abandon digital tools to write the book.”
“People using it weren’t saving that much time or effort.”
“Once I moved away from my closed-loop tech world, enshittification was unavoidable.”
“They didn’t have to take the bus and study books, but they were still reading and writing.”
“__________________________________ Against Convenience by Gabe Bullard is available from Hanover Square Press, an imprint of HarperCollins.”
“In the app, Microsoft’s AI assistant, called Copilot, hovered over the page.”
“It makes my research possible and keeps the copy editor sane.”
“To trade drafts with my editor, early readers, publisher, and fact-checker, I needed to install Microsoft Word.”
“Every interview I’ve ever done in my career was done on a digital recorder.”
“He was a Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard University and is co-founder of Together, Alone, an online magazine of television criticism.”
“Literary Hub » The Conveniences I Used to Write a Book About Inconvenience (Definitely Not AI) Literary Hub Craft and Criticism Literary Criticism Craft and Advice In Conversation On Translation Fiction and Poetry Short Story From the Novel Poem News and Culture History Science Politics Biography Memoir Food Technology Bookstores and Libraries Film and TV Travel Music Art and Photography The Hub Style Design Sports Become A Member Lit Hub Radio The Lit Hub Podcast Awakeners Fiction/Non/Fiction The Critic and Her Publics Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast Memoir Nation Beyond the Page First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing Thresholds The Cosmic Library Culture Schlock Reading Lists Reading Challenge Book Marks Best Reviewed Books CrimeReads True Crime The Daily Thrill Log In Craft and Criticism Fiction and Poetry News and Culture Lit Hub Radio Reading Lists Reading Challenge Book Marks CrimeReads Log In The Conveniences I Used to Write a Book About Inconvenience (Definitely Not AI) Gabe Bullard on Avoiding AI, Enshittification, and How Convenience Culture Makes a Lot of Things Worse Via Hanover Square Press Gabe Bullard September 15, 2026 After a few months, I got used to the sarcasm.”
“My transcription service also offered an AI-written summary of calls, which were only good for a laugh.”
“When I was in a better mood, AI seemed like a natural evolution I was stubbornly resisting.”
“The mandatory software only made a job possible—not better, not less frustrating, and not any more rewarding.”
“When I moved from books to human sources, machines were a constant disappointment.”
“The only AI-adjacent tool I used in writing was an old one: an app that transcribed interview recordings.”
“The process is nothing like using a chatbot; I feed the machine audio files and it spits out text.”
“What if my editor accepted the nudge in an email app to summarize further?”