In the AI Age, Making Things Difficult Is Deliberate

I am tired of seeing speed as a selling point.

I’ve wanted to talk about this for a long time.

I think one of the main reasons many of us feel anxious is because we have more productivity tools than ever, but these tools rarely match how we naturally want to create.

Here’s some sample headlines I've seen:

“From thought to action faster than humanly pos... See more

Like many other people, I’m grappling with how to best use AI.

If what you want is a content-marketing blog post that serves more to incrementally improve Google search results than to be read by an actual human, AI might help. If you want to think deeply through a subject and synthesize knowledge, then communicate that knowledge to others, it’s going to be better if you just struggle through the painful proce... See more

But here’s the point, the promise of this technology is speed and efficiency, a shorter route to an end product, and the removal of barriers between you and your creative self.

For those of us who are not geniuses, it may be tempting to outsource some portion of our creativity to the AI, so we can get past the fact of our non-geniousness, but those... See more