Shachaf Rodberg

So the essential skill of our time isn’t prompt engineering or coding—it’s having a finely tuned bullshit detector. It’s knowing enough about how humans actually think and write to spot bullshit. It’s having read widely enough to recognize when an answer is hollow, even when it’s dressed up in confident prose. It’s understanding your domain well... See more

algorithms of the online world are pushing creators and creatives towards quantity and formulas and away from quality or creativity.

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

AI-powered document editors, then, among other tools, use all that training data to make it even easier to write outcome-oriented garbage that moves us further and further from the truth of ourselves and each other as beautiful, complex, experiencing beings.

We are all products of what has come before us, but it’s by living our lives in interaction with others that we bring meaning into the world

10. People don't have ideas. Ideas have people.

My writing is a beacon for new connections, ideas, and opportunities. Almost all my closest friends are people I’ve met on the internet. Reading somebody else’s writing is a great gauge of a person’s mind. It reveals how they think, what inspires them, and what they value.