Daniel Wentsch

Your brain gives you the same little dopamine hits for understanding something as it does for doing something. Maybe even bigger hits, honestly. Understanding is clean and controllable and it happens entirely in your head (where you're safe.) Action is messy. Action = other people and uncontrollable variables and the possibility of looking stupid.

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Some were assigned to use AI and some were not. The results were nothing short of astonishing. Participants who used ChatGPT saw a dramatic reduction in their time on tasks, slashing it by a whopping 37 percent. Not only did they save time, but the quality of their work also increased as judged by other humans. These improvements were not limited

Coding is now accessible to anyone who can think clearly. Designers who understand systems. Teachers who grasp how people learn. Writers who structure narratives. Your existing expertise translates directly into building software. You don't need years of syntax memorization. You need to understand problems and communicate solutions.

“Infinite memory” runs against the very grain of what it means to be human. Cognitive science and evolutionary biology tell us that forgetting isn’t a design flaw, but a survival advantage. Our brains are not built to store everything. They’re built to let go: to blur the past, to misremember just enough to move forward.

Our brains don’t archive

Obviously, collaborations can work with idea generation too, but I think the most important part of idea generation is getting ideas yourself, then talking to people, customers, users to evolve them. Not talking to your teammates how great your team's idea is.