InnerVentures

I’ve been writing a lot about AI recently. I work with the technology every day and I’m doing research for a new trend report on the subject. I’m drowning in AI. This post is about writing, creativity, ideas and the importance of this faced with an onslaught of AI.

I often write to sense make. It’s such a great way of structuring thinking and to make arguments by asking questions and then researching the answers.

I think that one of the main ways humans will withstand the AI onslaught is by retaining and further developing our critical thinking skills.

As much has been discussed and said at the recent Davos talks: This is the one skill everybody needs in the age of AI | World Economic Forum (weforum.org).

Critical thinking (and sense making as I have written about before), will stand out when we are awash in a flood of AI generated content and AI competition.

It doesn’t always have to be about sense making, hard work and power.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Margret Atwood

The power can be soft and writing has its own pleasures too.

Simply expressing oneself, even if it feels like it will be swallowed up in a void or feels like a drop in an ocean of sameness, has great therapeutic benefits.

But power is there too. The power of ideas that can light up your inner fire and that of others too.

That also has great purpose.

The written word has long since moved the world.

Lighting a match and firing up your mind with ideas and those of others can lead to great things.

All great movements begin in the mind. Someone has a spark which turns into a flame and that flame is passed onto another.

Writing is a way to capture your ideas and is a noble pursuit that can help inspire you and others.

So get writing today, start a blog or a journal, do it for yourself and if it resonates with others, so much the better.