
How Will writes
Will writes the way he reads the cards: past the event of the day, toward the archetype moving through it.
His columns and essays sit where culture meets technology. In SPIN he traces how music, media and machines are changing the stories people tell about themselves. On his Substack, Which Way Is North, he writes longer and closer to the bone: about AI and what stays human, about creativity and fear, about culture and meaning, and about the heritage he carries and the repair it asks of him.
He keeps a personal code for working with AI, and the writing he cares about most stays wholly human, while other pieces deliberately explore the edge of creativity and technology. Each piece is an attempt to ask a better question, so that readers can choose a better story.
The SPIN column, on culture and technology
- SPIN5GW: Weapons of Mass Deception2026
- SPINThe Truth Is Out There2026
- SPINThe Great Pretenders2026
- SPINF2F, FFS!2025
- SPINMedicine Music Is Having a Special Moment2025
- SPINSoundtracking Our Digital Descent2025
- SPINHuman in the Loop2024
- SPINThe Cool War2023
The Which Way Is North Substack
AI and what stays human
- SubstackThe War Nobody’s Watching2026
- SubstackSearching for the Human in the Machine: Notes on Writing With AI2026
- SubstackWhat is your personal code of ethics for creating with AI?2026
- SubstackThe Secret of Archetype for Training AI to Speak Like a Human and Think Like a God2023
- SubstackQuestioning Intelligence: The Human Myth of Being Alone2021
Creativity and the inner life
- SubstackWhat Hides Behind Fear2026
- SubstackThe Sacred Sin of Contemplation2026
- SubstackWe All Walk With The Same Monsters2026
- SubstackGenius From the Dark: Finding Meaning in the Time of Pandemic Panic and Quarantine2020
Culture, media and meaning
- SubstackValues That Aren't Coded Aren't Real2026
- SubstackKilling Time to Injure Eternity2026
- SubstackFrom ‘Selling Out’ to ‘Selling In’2023
- SubstackHow Our Saviors Change; Or, the One in Which I Compare Web3 to Jesus2022
- SubstackWe Need to Talk About the Problem With ‘Whitelisting’2020
- SubstackWhat We’re Missing With Human Connection2020
Heritage, home and healing
New essays, every few weeks
Letters from Which Way Is North
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