Aimee Bothwell
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Personal & Travel Mar · 2026

Notes from the in-between places.

Notes, thoughts, and the occasional pastry ranking from a years-long ramble between Estonia, Bulgaria and the US.

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Aimee on AI v0.14 · Mar 2026

Figuring out AI as a normie.

From install notes and experiments to bigger musings about AI's future - written by a 'normie' non-technical person who enjoys getting in a bit over her head sometimes.

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The fireplace and reading chair at the cabin in Saaremaa
The fireplace at The Cabin in the Woods. Saaremaa, February 2024.
01 Feb 2024 · 12 min read · Estonia, Saaremaa, travel

A month on Saaremaa island, Estonia

On a last-minute whim, my friend Dan and I decided to stay on Saaremaa island for a month. Foreign tourists don't generally go there in February, but we were both in the mood to try something offbeat. We ended up calling it The Cabin in the Woods.

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A not-very-technical person installs a very technical thing

At some point during the OpenClaw install on my secondary MacBook Air, I stopped understanding what I was doing.

This is the story of what came next — the panic, the README I should have read first, the help I got, and what I learned about my own limits as someone who is decidedly not an engineer.

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The vocabulary problem

Thirty terms you're allowed to look up without feeling dumb.

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Three AI-for-writers tools, honestly reviewed

Subjective reviews by a person who doesn't want AI to do her writing.

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What I'd ask, if I could ask anyone

A normie's list of unanswerable questions about the next ten years.

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Aimee Bothwell
A note from Aimee

Life abroad, plus figuring out AI.

A late-30s millennial splitting time between Estonia, Bulgaria and the US. Midwestern American by upbringing and a bit restless by disposition. Both fascinated and concerned by AI - and deeply opposed to AI slop.

This site is the closest I can get to a single answer for "what are you up to?" — half travel diary, half open log of trying to make sense of AI without pretending to be an engineer.

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Travel stories, photos, and the occasional pastry ranking.
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Making sense of AI without pretending to be technical.