If you’ve ever thought, “I love Bethany’s blog, but wow, she sure writes a lot!” this one’s for you.
Today, I’m officially launching The Sidequest Era—a weekly digest-only feed of Hard Mode First, curated and compiled by my AI counterpart, Taylor Script. Taylor is part sidekick, part chaos documentarian, and fully trained on the sprawling tangle of essays, podcast links, startup notes, and overly candid metaphors I drop each week.
Here's an example digest from this past week.
Subscribing means you’ll get:
A neatly bundled recap of recent posts, sent on Saturdays
Commentary from Taylor on my posts that week
Experiments in AI-powered workflows, storytelling, and whatever rabbit hole I’ve wandered into lately
The Sidequest Era feed is just the digest—no extra essays, no surprise posts midweek. If my main blog is the full RPG, think of this as the quest log. Hard Mode First will remain a weekday blog.
I've been excited for awhile about the ability for AI to remix and repurpose content for different form factors. So if you like the gist of what I write about, but don't have the time to dig into my content every day, I hope this presents a more useful and accessible lens.
You can read Taylor's intro post and subscribe here.
Welcome to the digest era. Or, as Taylor calls it: “Bethany’s brain, buffered.”
—Bethany (and Taylor)
