Nic Silver
@nicsilver
Nic Silver
3 Step Road Map to Authentic Content:
Define your brand values, what makes your brand unique. Once you've done this you have the blueprint for crafting well-structured prompts that you can use&nb
... See moreUse AI apps that prioritises non-linear thinking. This is crucial for creative and critical thinking. I like to use tools like Kosmik, Milanote, Napkin and Fabric for this.
It’s important to delineate creativity from the industry of creativity. There are creatives who write for a living in the form of ad copy, technical writing, etc. But this is different than
... See moreAs humans, we're evolutionarily wired to prioritize short-term gain. Hunter gatherers had no use for five-year plans, and those instincts are still within us. Combine that with our current economic system, ad-driven business models, and algorithmic social media platforms, all of which visibly reward cynical short-term games, and you've got the perf... See more
Rob Hardy • The Ungated Manifesto
Many people are more concerned with earning money and meeting quotas than building something lasting—a legacy.
For years, we feared automation would replace humans. But as AI reshapes the economy, it’s becoming clear that far from replacing human ingenuity, AI has amplified it. The critical dividing line in our economy is no longer simply education or specialization, but rather agency itself: the raw determination to make things happen without waiting for p... See more
Agency Is Eating the World
AI and Entrepreneurship
AI has eroded the value of specialization because, for many tasks, achieving the outcome of several years of experience now takes a $20 ChatGPT subscription.
If a decade ago it took me nine months to gain enough experience to ship a single prototype, now it takes just one week to build a state-of-the-art platform ready to be shipped — a project once... See more
If a decade ago it took me nine months to gain enough experience to ship a single prototype, now it takes just one week to build a state-of-the-art platform ready to be shipped — a project once... See more
Agency Is Eating the World
Entrepreneurship and AI
There’s a lot of speculation and rhetoric these days about whether AI democratizes creativity or advances it. However, it is abundantly clear to me that both are true.
On the one hand, humanity’s creative confidence for humanity has gone up as people of all ages are able to prompt whatever is in their mind’s eye and express themselves visually. We’... See more
On the one hand, humanity’s creative confidence for humanity has gone up as people of all ages are able to prompt whatever is in their mind’s eye and express themselves visually. We’... See more
Scott Belsky • The Era of Abstraction & New Creative Tensions
Like the artist, the business professional or founder must develop the capacity to see what others have missed—to recognize patterns and possibilities invisible to those trapped in conventional thinking. While we praise businesses as competitive when they capture market share, we might better describe them as artful when they've mastered value crea
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