AI Shenanigans Newsletter
A monthly LinkedIn newsletter where I turn interesting AI articles, tool changes and technical ideas into practical context for people trying to understand what is actually useful.
AI Shenanigans is my monthly LinkedIn newsletter for the AI stories that feel worth pausing on. It is part reading list, part explainer, and part sanity check: a place to collect the useful bits from a fast-moving space without pretending every new model, feature or workflow is automatically a revolution.
Where I fit
This is my own writing and curation. I pick the themes, write the framing, and use the newsletter to show how I think about AI in practice: curious, technical enough to be useful, but grounded in the realities of teams, websites, tools and day-to-day work.
The brief
The aim is not to become another account shouting about the newest thing. The newsletter gives me a public way to build an AI point of view over time, share useful resources, and show that I can translate technical change into plain-English implications for people who do not spend all week reading release notes.
What I publish
- Plain-English explainers for technical ideas, including MCP, command-line workflows and where different tooling approaches fit.
- Practical guides around prompt engineering, LinkedIn profile optimisation and using AI tools without making the work feel generic.
- Bigger-picture pieces on local AI, hardware costs, environmental impact and how AI adoption changes the practical choices people make.
- Curated links and commentary that help readers decide what deserves attention, what needs caution, and what can probably wait.
Build notes
- The value is in the editorial judgement: choosing a small set of things to explain rather than dumping every interesting link into a feed.
- The tone has to stay approachable. AI writing gets noisy quickly, so I try to keep the framing useful for people who care about outcomes rather than jargon.
- The topics also feed back into my wider work: training, automation, consultancy, accessibility ideas and conversations about how teams should adopt AI safely.
What the newsletter needed to make easier
For most people, the difficult part is not finding more AI news. It is knowing which parts matter, how they connect to real work, and what to ignore for now. AI Shenanigans gives me a lightweight public format for doing that thinking out loud.