I want to build a Claude blog skill and I was reading through your skill that helps write your blog posts. I’m curious about a few things. First, with your journalist background I know you love to write as much as I do. How much do you write versus have claude write? How much quicker is it to use your skill than before using it—I assumed you used ChatGPT. Second, I think you posts weekly. Why that frequency? Third, you mentioned ‘pillar pages’—is that like Jana Osofsky’s blog pillars? Can you talk about that? tia
Kate's answer
Kate's take, in a sentence or two
Kate says she now feels more like an editor than a writer—she brain-dumps ideas via voice into Claude, lets it draft, then edits (sometimes lightly, sometimes rewriting entirely or writing from scratch herself when she really wants to). She hasn't missed writing because she's trained Claude to sound like her and always feeds it a specific idea or theme rather than generic prompts, so she still gets her creative fix. She also believes the Claude skill outperforms her old custom GPT both because Claude itself produces better, more instruction-following output and because the Claude skill was built on her more recently updated course content, while the custom GPT was left outdated since traffic is no longer sent there.