As an educator and school IT director, I’ve been inundated lately with AI triumphalism. Every morning, my inbox is full of emails from start-ups and legacy tech companies urging me to check out their AI EdTech products. Social media is full of EdTech ‘thought leaders’ talking about AI. The various […]
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There are a lot of reasons to dislike ‘AI’ (I put quotes around it because it is artificial but it’s not intelligent). Environmental impact of pouring gasoline on the fire of global warming False claims regarding what it can do/hype bubble Deeply embedded racism Copyright infringement and theft of copyrighted […]
“Unions are a better invention than chatGPT” -Joan Westenberg I ran across this hand-wringing WSJ article recently which bemoans the European proclivity to enact regulations that protect people’s privacy, their health, and their way of life at the expense of being able to compete with China and the U.S. in […]
Book 2 in my Infinity Blast series is out now! More info here: https://www.bradleywwright.com/kid_books.php
I have a word problem. The words are Disorder, Deficit, Disability, and Disease. They all start with the letter D but that’s just a coincidence. Let me take a step back. I’m a neurodivergent person. I’m dad to a neurodivergent kid, husband to a neurodivergent spouse, brother to a neurodivergent […]
I had a weird idea the other day: what if I trained an AI text generator on my own writing? What would it produce? The idea kept nagging at me until this weekend I finally had a free couple of hours and dug in. I used a python package I […]
I’m writing a new middle grade fantasy book that features a stone age flute. While doing research, I came across this tutorial on how to make a branch flute and decided to give it a try. First, I had to find a good stick. Out on a hike one day […]
The first book in my new middle grade series Infinity Blast and the Space Weapon of Doom is out now from Reycraft Books. Self-proclaimed space nerds Infinity, his best friend Gabriel, and his sister Twilight are on the run, spurred by the arrest of their astrophysicist parents who have decoded […]
I’ve read A LOT of books featuring neurodivergent characters. Why? First, to find good books for my own kid. Second, to see what else was out there when I set out to write my own neurodivergent characters. Third, because I volunteered to be a reader/reviewer for our Just Books club […]
I wrote this article for shepherd.com about my favorite mystery novels: https://shepherd.com/best-books/mystery-where-the-quest-goes-sideways
Book 3 in the Justin Vincent series is out now: “Expect a wild ride from Engine Nine. Author Bradley W. Wright delivers a book full of twists and turns, big revelations, and jaw-dropping moments…Lovers of mystery-suspense novels will have a good time reading Engine Nine.” – Jaylynn Korrell, Independent Book […]
Book 2 in the Justin Vincent Series: Master thief Justin Vincent and his computer hacker partner Ashna help people recover stolen items when the authorities can’t. This time, their client needs his missing research notes back—notes that could help provide the solution to a century old musical mystery. The trail […]