✊🏻 I've started a small, silent protest against AI: capitalizatioN typoS. I'm starting to notice suspiciously perfect writing everywhere. Emails. Social media posts. Email newsletters. You can use AI to create content. But it's not very effective at creating CONNECTION. That writing that's suspiciously perfect? (With notoriously bland and sanitized language?) It makes me wonder ... who actually wrote this? Is this coming straight from a human heart -- or from the crowdsourced statistical mean of billions of words in an AI model? 🔥 Hot take: I don't want to read your newsletter with ChatGPT copy/pastes. I want to read something from YOUR soul. YOUR passion. YOUR lived human experience. I can prompt ChatGPT all by myself, thank you very much. So I started a silent protest, mostly in emails -- leaving little typos and extra capitalS in words. (THe shift key on my laptop is a little overambitious and it doesn't let go easily ... which, honestly, lots of us humans don't do easily either.) (PS: All of the extra capitals in this post have been intentional except for the H above in the word "THe" ... that one is authentically accidental!) WHy? (Ha, there's another one!) When I leave them there, you have NO doubt that this message was drawn directly from my own bloodstream. It's a little gift I want to give you -- a true, authentic part of myself. 🍯 Wabisabi is a Japanese aesthetic that embraces imperfection and transience. It emphasizes authentic over artificial ... the worn over the new ... ... and I ABOSLUTELY LOVE the concept. I'd rather buy a hand-made coffee mug from a human potter I know than buy one at Wal-Mart. I don't know about you, but those human touches -- those imperfections that show our humanity -- I think those are going to become more and more and more important as the years go on. I'm looking for anything that can serve as a thumbprint to show that my true, authentic, flesh-and-bones self created what you're reading / consuming / watching. There's all of this talk that content creators are going to be out of work because of generative AI. Content creators ... nah, I want to be a CONNECTION creator. The more that the world becomes artificial, the more we're going to crave connection. Human connection. ANd I'm going to sprinkle in little artifacts to prove that I'm showing up as a human whereveR I can. ❤️

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