HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself
by Christine "Ink" Whitmarsh
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About this podcast
Christine Whitmarsh's popular podcast Your Daily Writing Habit (nearly 1,600 episodes produced) was about helping writers build a writing practice. Now, she's back with a new show - HumanPrint: How to Use AI Without Losing Yourself. HumanPrint is about protecting that practice — and yourself — in a very different landscape.
It's still the same thread: voice, language, identity, and the daily choices that shape who you are. I'm just picking it up with a new subplot woven in: AI.
This is a practical thinking show for people who are open to using AI, maybe even excited by parts of it, but are not interested in disappearing into it.
Each week, we'll look at one place where your human signal — your voice, judgment, identity, behavior, or self-authorship — is vulnerable to drift, and one way to protect it.
AI is being pitched as the tool we need to survive, hanging over people like a sword waiting to fall. HumanPrint is about learning to wield the tool without becoming the tool.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 23 episodes
- Your Data Is Going Somewhere: A HumanPrint Interview with Apostolos Stamenos · 40 minThat conversation you’re having with AI? It’s also data going somewhere. In this episode of HumanPrint, I talk with Apostolos Stamenos, an award-winning former federal…
- Build the Infrastructure Your Brain Needs: A HumanPrint Interview with the “twice-exceptional” Jon Mick · 34 minJon Mick spent 40 years trying to fix his brain. Then he built AI infrastructure around the way it actually works. In this episode of HumanPrint, I talk with Jon, a…
- Make More Things Possible: A HumanPrint Interview with Emma Klint · 27 minWhat if the most interesting use of AI isn’t doing the same work faster, but making entirely different things possible? In this episode of HumanPrint, I talk with designer and…
- AI as Scaffolding, Not a Substitute: A HumanPrint Interview with Tracy Albinson · 32 minWhat happens when you stop asking AI to work like everyone else’s tool and start building it around the way your own brain actually works? In this episode of HumanPrint, I talk…
- Replacing AI Fear With Fun: A HumanPrint Interview with Cookie · 45 min · Episode 19For the first guest interview on HumanPrint, I’m talking with Cookie Young of The Neon Vegas — marketing heretic, synthetic era image provocateur, and boutique AI filmmaker —…
- Episode 18: Ship Anyway · 16 min · Episode 18What are you waiting to create while the rest of the world argues about AI? In this episode, you’ll examine how uncertainty, criticism, and shifting standards can quietly delay…
- Episode 17: Before AI / After AI · 16 min · Episode 17Has AI actually improved your writing process, or just changed it? This episode gives you a practical way to compare how you worked before generative AI with how you work now, so…
- Episode 16: Head Down, Eyes on Your Own Paper · 17 min · Episode 16How do you protect your creative headspace when everybody seems to have an opinion about how you should write? In this episode, you’ll learn how to separate valuable criticism…
- Episode 15: Set the Terms of Your Social Media Presence · 19 min · Episode 15What this episode is about You can disagree with everything a platform is doing and still have your subscribers, income, archive, and professional network sitting on it. Leaving…
- Episode 14: Put the Torch Down · 18 min · Episode 14What this episode is about Spotting AI writing has become an internet sport. Someone sees an em dash or a tidy structure and starts a forensic investigation from the comments…
- Episode 13: Freedom of Creative Process · 17 min · Episode 13What this episode is about Substack just partnered with Pangram to let readers scan your posts and get a percentage estimate of how much was human-written. LinkedIn added a…
- Episode 12: What Do YOU Want to Write About? · 11 min · Episode 12What this episode is about WHY gives your writing fuel. HOW gives it a voice. WHAT is where most people lose the thread, chasing trends and algorithms instead of their own…
- Episode 11: How Do You Sound Like You? · 13 min · Episode 11What this episode is about Every time another "how to spot AI writing" post shows up, my response is the same: how do I know YOU wrote it? Before you accuse anyone else of using…
- Episode 10: Why Do You Write? · 12 min · Episode 10What this episode is about I started writing at seven and spent most of my childhood thinking of it as a talent, not a compulsion. Then a life-and-death medical situation sent me…
- Episode 9: Panic is a Terrible Editor · 10 min · Episode 9What this episode is about In May 2025, the Chicago Sun-Times ran a summer reading list with ten books that didn't exist — fabricated by AI, submitted by a freelancer who later…
- Episode 8: Words as Pixels of the Human Experience · 10 min · Episode 8What this episode is about Each data point represents one pixel of the human experience. That's a stats idea, but it's also a writing idea — the word is the pixel, and the human…
- Episode 7: Who's Actually Driving This Thing · 12 min · Episode 7What this episode is about In 2024, Air Canada's chatbot gave a customer the wrong information about bereavement fares — and when he filed a claim, the airline tried to argue the…
- Approval Voice Versus Alive Voice · 18 min · Episode 6What this episode is about This episode starts with scoliosis research and statistics, which may or may not be what you signed up for. But it's connected—because the same person…
- How to Hear Yourself Again · 11 min · Episode 5What this episode is about People know when they're hearing Bob Dylan. The question is, do you know when you're hearing yourself? A lot of people have never really developed the…
- The Urge to Fix the Weird Parts · 9 min · Episode 4What this episode is about AI has become the most rigid, literal editor in the world—determined to stamp out your unique writing messiness every time you color outside the…
