Yes, writing = thinking, but my hope is that in light of AI that writing = personal experience will start to trend more and those of us who tell real life stories and write from authentic human experience will actually stand out even more. This one line in your article hit me as a revelation. "No one is tasked with reading your stuff." It's absurdly obvious that this is true, but it put the challenge of gaining readership into a stark frame of reference. No one on earth is getting paid to read what I write, while everyone is trying to get paid for creating content. The trick is to get someone to task themselves with reading what you write, which of course comes back to exactly what you're talking about. Brevity. Relevance. Value.
Yes, writing = thinking, but my hope is that in light of AI that writing = personal experience will start to trend more and those of us who tell real life stories and write from authentic human experience will actually stand out even more. This one line in your article hit me as a revelation. "No one is tasked with reading your stuff." It's absurdly obvious that this is true, but it put the challenge of gaining readership into a stark frame of reference. No one on earth is getting paid to read what I write, while everyone is trying to get paid for creating content. The trick is to get someone to task themselves with reading what you write, which of course comes back to exactly what you're talking about. Brevity. Relevance. Value.