If you use AI to write me that note, don’t expect me to read it

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.

This is VERY different to... See more

But now, when my brain spontaneously forms a tiny sliver of a potentially interesting concept or idea, I can just shove a few sloppy words into a prompt and almost instantly get a fully reasoned, researched, and completed thought. Minimal organic thinking required. This has had a dramatic and profound effect on my brain. My thinking systems have at... See more