What Matters in the Age of AI Is Taste

The more AI can execute, the more your eye for what's interesting – your ability to discern and curate what matters and why – becomes everything.

But if you don’t have a home for the references, quotes, notes, and highlights that moved you—what are you giving AI to work with?

All that is to say: A curated personal knowledge base has never mattered mo

First, you need to cultivate a deeper relationship with your gut. The more our world becomes measurable and quantifiable, the more we need spaces that preserve what can't be measured—the hunches we can't explain, the patterns we feel but can't prove.

At first, I saw using AI as a binary choice between soulless efficiency or becoming a luddite and preserving your authentic human creativity.

Over the last few months, Claude has become my dream creative partner, and I haven’t lost my soul. This broke my brain a little bit.

Curiosity is a better compass than cynicism—it shifts from defending your ter