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Make and take
In a world of automation, AI and outsourcing, what exactly do we do for a living?
Perhaps we make decisions.
And what’s in short supply?
A willingness to take responsibility.
If you choose to sign up to make and take, there have never been more tools or more leverage available to you.
AI is old news. Generative AI is the future.
The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) is well known, often evoking futuristic movies like Robocop, Terminator and The Matrix. Yet what many don’t realize is that AI has been part of our lives for decades. When you finish watching a movie on a streaming platform and instantly see recommendations for similar content, that’s AI. When you’re shopping online and an entire page of suggested products appears, that’s AI. Even the digital ads you see are powered by machine-learning algorithms designed to optimize engagement, clicks, and conversions. Companies have relied on AI rule-based automation, routines, and machine-learning algorithms for years to power their systems and business processes. So when…
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Room temperature
Left alone, a cup of coffee will gradually cool until it reaches room temperature.
Stable systems regress to the mean. Things level out on their way to average, which maintains the stability of the system.
The same pressures are put on any individual in our culture.
Sooner or later, unless you push back, you’ll end up at room temperature.
(As I write this, the built-in grammar tool has made suggestions to every single sentence, pushing to make it sound less like me and more like normal.)
Listen to yourself
Here’s a useful writing breakthrough that has made a difference for me…
Set up an account at ElevenLabs. Create a custom voice by uploading some recordings of yourself speaking. It’s not perfect, but it’s eerily close.
Now, when writing an essay, a book or even a report for work, upload the text and have the site convert it to your voice. Download it to your phone and listen to the audiobook you just made as you walk around town or go for a drive.
You’ll probably notice things that didn’t come through when you were trying to edit your own work on the screen.
It’s also a useful hack for anyone writing a screenplay or dialogue. And perhaps it will be helpful for you in converting and then listening to documents that others have written.
Reading is a miracle, but our brains listen differently–especially to our own voice.
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