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Some of my closest friends, family, and clients are uneasy about AI.

In fact, in many circles, it’s actually shameful to use AI, or to be openly enthusiastic about it (as I am!)

People have raised specific objections to me. I’m grateful. This post exists because of those conversations.

What they feel is that important things are being lost, and that the people rushing ahead (the accelerationists) aren’t slowing down long enough to respect or even notice the loss…

So this article is lovingly …

Twenty new comments were sitting in my course communities this morning. I personally replied to three...

Our clients/members take time to write something… and we're only able to respond to a fraction of it. Many of us carry a low-grade guilt about this — the feeling that every unanswered comment is a small broken promise.

If you create content or run any kind of community, you can probably relate. It's one of the reasons social media can feel so exhausting for us soulpreneurs.

And now, for th…

You share a half-formed idea with your AI — a rough plan, a shaky draft, a decision you're only half-sure about.

And it tells you the idea is "brilliant." Insightful. Exactly what the world needs!

Feels good, doesn't it? It did for me, too… for longer than I'd like to admit. 😅

But most of the time… it isn't really helping you.

Your AI is trained to please you.

Left to its defaults, that's what it does — it agrees, and hands back a polished, credible-sounding version of whatever you already …

If you’ve asked a chatbot to write a blog post, you’ve seen how ridiculously easy it is. Within minutes you have a “polished” article about any topic in the world.

Or ask for a plan, or to figure out a problem, and BOOM you have more ideas than you know what to do with.

And that’s dangerous.

Those of us who use chatbots a lot are at risk of losing our muscles of thinking, writing, authentic creating…

A writer recently confessed on Reddit that they no longer trust their instincts after months…