Curious about the way you mention nine through your work, Rich? I know everything you do has a purpose!
I find I am increasingly in the selective AI adoption camp for the very reasons you mention here. I don't want to automate my life and thus my brain! I'm exploring friction maxxing in a post next week - such a fun experiment to try.
I'm so impressed you'd pull that out, Dallas. Nine keeps showing up in my work because it's the upper limit of what your brain can hold in working memory before things start falling off. I write at that edge on purpose...it's the sweet spot between thorough and retainable.
Ooh love that. I think your last post mentioned nine three times just in the introduction and I forgot to ask then so thought I had better when I saw it again! I hope you write more on this sometime, it's fascinating.
This hits “The people pulling ahead right now aren’t the ones using AI hardest, they’re the ones using AI to clear the runway so they can bring sharper thinking to the moments that matter.”
Is ‘premium thinking’ a thing now? I am so glad that people are becoming aware of what AI takes away as much as they are grateful for what it adds…
This is why slow ai is important. I view/use LLMs as a thinking partner, not a speed enhancer. When I get output I pause and marinate in it. I keep the window open, go to another and let my brain marinate. Then I come back and prompt chain and/or human edit through the rest of the chat. This is the only way I like to use LLMs. The speed myth fell flat for me early so I experimented with other things and landed here. I primarily work with speech, language, text in my business so that helps. I'm used to shaping stories so I suppose I just transferred that skill over.
Curious about the way you mention nine through your work, Rich? I know everything you do has a purpose!
I find I am increasingly in the selective AI adoption camp for the very reasons you mention here. I don't want to automate my life and thus my brain! I'm exploring friction maxxing in a post next week - such a fun experiment to try.
I'm so impressed you'd pull that out, Dallas. Nine keeps showing up in my work because it's the upper limit of what your brain can hold in working memory before things start falling off. I write at that edge on purpose...it's the sweet spot between thorough and retainable.
Ooh love that. I think your last post mentioned nine three times just in the introduction and I forgot to ask then so thought I had better when I saw it again! I hope you write more on this sometime, it's fascinating.
This hits “The people pulling ahead right now aren’t the ones using AI hardest, they’re the ones using AI to clear the runway so they can bring sharper thinking to the moments that matter.”
Is ‘premium thinking’ a thing now? I am so glad that people are becoming aware of what AI takes away as much as they are grateful for what it adds…
This is why slow ai is important. I view/use LLMs as a thinking partner, not a speed enhancer. When I get output I pause and marinate in it. I keep the window open, go to another and let my brain marinate. Then I come back and prompt chain and/or human edit through the rest of the chat. This is the only way I like to use LLMs. The speed myth fell flat for me early so I experimented with other things and landed here. I primarily work with speech, language, text in my business so that helps. I'm used to shaping stories so I suppose I just transferred that skill over.
You had me at thinking partner, Stephanie. You're describing the Thinking Loop naturally. Premium Thinking right there.
It certainly has become a thing, and it's nice to place "premium thinking and AI" in any engine and see the term capturing what is must human.