Mind Soup

We are living through a strange moment in the history of communication. We have reached a point where almost anyone can produce a polished article, social media post, email, presentation, or marketing campaign in seconds. The technology is impressive, and it is changing the way we work. But as AI becomes better at producing content, I think we are going to discover that producing content was never really the difficult part. The difficult part was always having something worth saying. I have spent much of my career working in marketing and communications, where there is constant pressure to produce. There is always another campaign, another post, another newsletter, another blog, another presentation, and another idea that needs to be turned into something people can see. For years, the challenge was often finding enough time to create all of it. AI is changing that equation. It can help you move from an idea to a draft remarkably quickly. It can organize your thoughts, suggest angles, ...

I've always found changing my mind slightly uncomfortable. There is a strange pressure, especially as you get older, to appear consistent. We are encouraged to have strong opinions, defend them confidently, and stand by what we said before. Changing your mind can sometimes look like weakness, indecision, or a lack of conviction. I've come to see it differently. Changing your mind is often evidence that you learned something. Some of the opinions I had in my twenties feel almost foreign to me now. Others have simply become more nuanced. There are things I once considered extremely important that barely register anymore, and things I didn't understand at all that have become central to how I think about work and life. I'm sure I'll change my mind about many of these things again. That's probably the point. I changed my mind about having a five-year plan For a long time, I thought ambitious people were supposed to know where they were going. You picked a direction,...