Dave Chappelle put it better than most of us could: "If you ever catch me staring into space, don't bother me. I'm working."
The performance the audience sees is just the part that happens after the thinking is done. Watch anyone good at their craft and the work looks easy, almost inevitable. It looks that way because the hard part already happened, out of sight, in the thinking. What you make flows when the thinking behind it was good.
This matters more now, not less. AI made the doing quicker than it ever has been. Type a sentence, get a draft, a design, a working page. But fast and yours are not the same thing. The model hands everyone something competent in seconds, which makes competent the floor now, not the edge. To make a thing unique, to make it actually yours, you still have to have thought through what you were trying to achieve before the model ever started.
Finding the pattern in the noise is the thing I'm best at, and it only happens when I've protected the staring-into-space time to do it. That's not a quirk to apologize for. It's a skill worth building on purpose. None of that is an argument for moving slow. You can still move fast. It's an argument for thinking it through before you move.
Yes, get your business idea out the door fast and let real users tell you what's wrong. That part should be quick, and a little humbling. But the most important question sits upstream of all of it, and no model will answer it for you. Why are you building this in the first place?
AI can build it fast. You make it yours.
🎵 Michael Jackson — "Off the Wall" (produced by Quincy Jones) Quincy makes it sound effortless. The thinking and the arranging happened long before anyone hit record.
— Nicc
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