Creative human beings in a post AI world

My take: what’s happening is the same thing that happens with every new revolutionary piece of technology—we stop exercising some mental muscles because the tool makes that particular task easier.

Think about it: GPS weakened our sense of direction, calculators slowed our mental math, and the internet made our memory lazier.

But no one says you’re an... See more

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.

Two useful AI tactics

Create a document, several pages long, that explains who you are. What sort of learner are you? Do you have degrees or expertise? What sort of change are you making, who works with you, what are your standards? How do you want to engage?

Periodically, upload the doc to the chat you’re having with an LLM. Let it know you’re... See more

The AI Branding Wars Have Begun

AI models are getting better — all of them. The gap between the top and 10th-best has been cut in half in a year, and the top two models are basically tied. 

Large language models are increasingly, and similarly competent because they are trained on largely the same datasets — the Common Crawl, a massive archive of... See more

“Your best work will sit at the intersection of fun and challenge and it’s important to try and design your life to spend as much time there as possible. … Creativity is maintenance.”