Not Too Old for AI Annette Thompson

A weekly letter · Est. 2026

You're not too old
for AI.
You're just early.

I'm Annette. I founded a tech company in 1995, raised seven children, and built organizations on three continents. At 57, I'm learning to create with AI in real time, and writing it all down for you, gently and without the jargon.

[ A soft, natural portrait
of Annette ]
"It felt like the train had left. It hadn't."
1995Founded a tech company
3Continents built on
65kCommunity members
57And building, today
From the newsletter

Quiet, useful reading for the curious.

One honest essay a week about actually using AI in a real life, with real projects and the parts that went sideways.

No. 01
April · 6 min

The one default I changed in Claude Code

The small setting nobody mentions, and the day it stopped me feeling like a fraud at the keyboard.

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No. 02
May · 8 min

How I began, at fifty-four

Not a tutorial. The honest story of deciding the wave had not, in fact, gone out without me.

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No. 03
May · 7 min

226 biomarkers, and a quiet assistant

What a longevity panel and an AI research companion taught me about reading my own body.

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They kept telling me AI was for young people. They were mistaken.
Annette, in Issue One
[ Annette, candid ]
Why this letter

A peer, not a professor.

I'm not here to lecture you from some glossy expert's chair. I'm a few steps ahead on the same path, turning around to say: come on, the water's lovely, and you're far more ready than they've made you feel.

Every week I share what I'm building, what broke, and what I'd tell a friend over coffee who asked, "but what are you actually doing with this?"

— Annette
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