What Pithwork is
Most AI commentary is written by people inside the industry, for other people inside the industry. Pithwork starts from the other end. The most interesting questions about AI aren’t being asked by the people building it. They’re being asked by the people whose work it’ll touch — the cherry-orchard owner, the NICU nurse, the third-grade teacher, the hospice chaplain. We write from where AI lands, not from where it’s launched.
A magazine-of-one
Pithwork is run by one editor. There is no team, no calendar, no quota. The magazine publishes a weekly essay and a twice-monthly long-form video. When other ventures pull on the editor’s time, the magazine skips a week. The promise is that what gets published has earned the bar — not that the bar gets met every Monday.
What we cover
A grid. Twenty-five distant domains by five recurring lenses:
- Should this domain use AI?
- What does AI break about it?
- What does the domain teach us about AI?
- How is the domain actually using AI right now?
- What does the domain give us that AI can’t replace?
Each piece is one cell in that grid. New domains get added as they surface; the grid is reviewed quarterly.
What we refuse
No takes for engagement. No predictions about AGI dates or model benchmarks. No advisory content — that belongs to another brand. Nothing our distant-domain practitioners would call wrong.
The editor
Pithwork is edited by Kyle Dickinson. He lives in Duluth, Minnesota with his wife Megan, their two sons, and two golden retrievers. He grows cherry trees in the backyard and pays attention to what they tell him about the weather. He reads heavy non-fiction and the occasional novel about being stranded somewhere.
He’s on the masthead because every published sentence is his.