I want to see more tools and fewer operated machines - we should be embracing our humanity instead of blindly improving efficiency. And that involves using our new AI technology in more deft ways than generating more content for humans to evaluate. I believe the real game changers are going to have very little to do with plain content generation.

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When it comes to AI, we need to aim higher than the question: “What if you could press a button to generate an essay?” AI can produce infinite amounts of content; quantity is its game. Quality, intention, taste, originality, vision—that’s where we come in.

Our interfaces should facilitate prose-sculpting, meaning-architecting, memory-augmenting, and

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There's this idea floating around that using AI means you're somehow cheating the creative process or making it too easy.

But that's NOT how I use AI at all.

When I work with AI, I'm not checking out of the creative process. I'm fully in it—throwing questions, bouncing ideas, asking for rephrasing, exploring different angles.

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Collecting little moments like this is at the heart of creative work—even before AI. Writers have writers’ notebooks, artists have sketchbooks, and musicians often record snippets of melodies. These collections become the seeds of future work. If we approach creativity like a language model, we see that these collections are also the context for

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