AI

If you say, "Here's this AI tool, and I'm going to give it my copy and ask it to make it slightly smoother," that's a fine tool to save you a couple of hours of work, and it leads to the world turning into mayonnaise. I'm not interested in that. That's why it doesn't write blog posts for me. But what it does do is I'll give it a chapter of a book

One can even argue that the modern corporation and work arrangements are tools for the suppression of intelligence: For turning humans into small interchangeable parts, performing narrow tasks. The corporation as a whole is productive, but every component within it is designed for and encouraged not to think too much in order to maintain the

"what is my best competitor doing with AI and what will that mean for me and my business if they are "turbocharged with AI"

Alex Dobrenko: What is your personal AI thesis? The core belief that drives all your decisions around these tools?

Seth Godin: It's probably the talking dog thing, which has two parts. Part one is if you meet a talking dog and its grammar isn't very good, don't forget that it's still a talking dog. It's still a miracle. But number two is just

The solution is what IDEO cofounder Tim Brown called a “T-shaped professional” in the 1990s: becoming a specialist with a generalist’s mindset—deep in one area (like the stem of a T), and broad enough (like the top) to adapt, connect, and multiply value across others.

Position yourself where AI can’t easily reach—where your skills are both scarce and make the technology more useful.

Everyone wants the summary. But the summary is what's left after someone else decided what matters. Their priorities aren't yours. Their filters aren't yours. When you operate on summaries, you're thinking with someone else's brain.

2.     Fuck, this is good, on why we want robots at work but humans in art, via Chris Paik. Tl;dr: in the economy of necessity, humans are friction. In the economy of meaning, they’re the point.

We hate other people when latency becomes intolerable. As soon as a task is about speed, other humans feel like an irritating inconvenience. The Uber

AI prompts:

"You are an expert in [specific topic]. I need content that [specific goal] for an audience of [specific description].

The three main points should be [point 1], [point 2], and [point 3]. Make it sound like [reference example or style]."