Welcome to Writing Hacks—evolving into Writing Matters
Writing Hacks began in 2021 as a newsletter with advice to help you write more efficiently and effectively at work—one “hack” at a time. In each early newsletter, I focused on just one strategy or topic with the goal of helping you make incremental changes to your writing.
When ChatGPT was released in late 2022, I found myself writing more and more often about the implications of generative AI for writing—and about why we write, what matters about writing, and what the widespread embrace of AI means for writing. Because of this shift away from hacks, I’ve in the process of changing the name of this newsletter to better fit the focus. Because I write about why writing matters—but also about so many writing-related matters, from now on, my posts will come out under the name “Writing Matters.”
I’m Jane Rosenzweig, and I’ve been a writer, an editor, and a writing teacher for more than 20 years. My day job is teaching writing and training writing tutors at Harvard. I’ve also taught writing to employees at companies and non-profits, where I’ve had the chance to learn about writing in different fields and for different kinds of managers. You can read my writing about writing in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, Slate, and WBUR’s Cognoscenti.
