Mid-2000s, late twenties, and I got pulled into a funnel. Blogs were taking off. Everybody had an email list and a free PDF, and I wanted the free prize inside, so I signed up and read the thing. The copy was overwritten and wandering, wild claims stacked on top of each other, and somewhere underneath … Continue reading The Wrong People Are Shipping
I've lost arguments I was never in, with my wife and, with AI helping me build the case, at work. What a straw man costs and what I do instead.
A guy at church asked whether AI could pull the rabbit trails out of his meetings. I told him in five minutes. On the drive home my wife pointed out I'd just demonstrated the thing I've been building all year.
I handed over a finished manuscript and asked AI to help me edit it. It rewrote passages and changed plot points, and it was right to — I never said what I meant by "edit." What that cost me, and what it taught me about listening to people.
A stranger stopped me ten seconds after I walked off the stage with a second place trophy and offered to tell me what I'd done wrong. He may have been right. I'll never know.
