When Thinking Isn't Enough.*
It seems today, we are not reading enough. I don't mean the quick scanning we normally do, but that deeper type of actually reading something with meat on it—something that is structured and makes you think.
The posts here represent a certain level of provocative thinking, but taken down to more easily digestible bites so you, dear reader, do not get too overwhelmed with this extreme change to your natural daily pattern.
Reading is the first step. Writing is the next step.
The power of WRITING is where basic thoughts can be studied and expanded on. Where fleeting journeys through the mind can be parsed into paragraphs on a paper-white screen, to be scrolled through and liked just like any social media page worth its salt.
Yep, you too can be the author of magical mystery tours of nostalgia, excitement, and discoveries for the future.
The power of WRITING—this lost, age-old art—is where random notes can be twisted and bent around a central theme and presented as major works, even if only for your own pleasure.
More seriously, WRITING is practice. The practiced art of organizing your life's project. Not your demanding work project, but all that information that is important to you and those who willingly read it afterwards.
AI writes beautifully, right? And it should. It has been taught to acquire all of the hard-fought written phrases of others and place them in a semi-coherent form to simulate an intelligence it doesn't have.
Humans, on the other hand, can visualize the world around them, can hear this same world, and experience emotions even the most advanced AI cannot feel.
So WRITING is one way we can take back our humanity from AI bots.
WRITING our way means we have a visual reference of what matters to us.
In as much as digital photography records the visual, so too must WRITING record the mental, the emotional, the organizational us.
This Fogy blog started out as an exercise—Fogy at the writing gym, stretching his keyboard-bound muscles to try and extract the hidden depths of his long-lost reading. To prepare himself for the novels ahead.
As in all preparations, this gym has opened up even more possibilities not fully expected by Fogy.
The ideas floating out to a sea of sleep suddenly became inbound waves of literary nonsense, ready for digital manipulation into coherent thought.
Thoughts became genuine gold mines of unfettered advice, observation, and organization.
Fogy has become more productive, more inventive—and more human too.
WRITING is also giving you a voice, the chance to really place yourself among the better informed by simply taking the wasted time of scrolling, bingeing, and sleeping and transforming all of that into a scribe’s anthology of meaningful madness.
A.I. is improving my corporate e-mails and making me a lazy writer at the same time. Reading your text just made me think about how important it is not to fall in this trap. It's not only undermining my capacity of writing in correct english, but also spoiling the opportunity of really connecting with the people at the other side of the screen.
ReplyDeleteNow the AI revised version: AI is improving my corporate emails — but it's also making me a lazier writer. Reading your text made me reflect on how important it is not to fall into that trap. It's not just undermining my ability to write proper English; it's also spoiling the opportunity to genuinely connect with the person on the other side of the screen.
ReplyDeleteActually, this can be a powerful way of improving english skills, if one is paying attention. Bigger lesson: think before posting.
ReplyDeleteAdorando navegar pelas águas que me levam aos seus "absurdos literários". Leitura que me faz refletir, agir e acreditar ainda mais na genialidade do Poder da Escrita. Admiração gigante por este escritor!
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