why write when ai can do it for you

AI can help me move faster. It can help me organize a mess, translate jargon, and pressure-test a hypothesis I’m forming. But it cannot build my understanding for me. It cannot form my point of view. It cannot do the slow, cumulative work of helping me know something well enough that it becomes part of how I see. That’s what I’m choosing to keep... See more

It’s because there’s a difference between processing information and building knowledge. And there is definitely a difference between borrowing someone else’s summary and developing your own judgment.

That last one matters to me most.

A lot of what I do for work depends on taste and interpretation. I have to decide what is interesting, what is true,... See more

To start, I want to be specific about what I mean by writing because it’s important: writing is thinking on paper. It’s an extension of someone’s mind made manifest in the world through words with the purpose of passing along a container of meaning from one person to another.

AI tools can summarize what’s already known, but they can’t give you a point of view on what you don’t yet know.

In fields where results and track record lag or stay hidden, writing is an interim signal of competence. AI can generate content, but it can’t demonstrate judgment accumulated over years of experience

AI-generated content might fill a feed, but it doesn’t build the trust that makes someone open your cold email.