Remote work cost us something we didn’t price at the time: being stuck in a room together, where someone’s stupid passing comment sparks the thing that matters. AI is adding a stranger loss on top. People feel performance anxiety about the prompt itself, trying to say the right thing so the artifact comes out good, and so they never feel comfortable wrestling.
And all good thinking comes from wrestling with ideas that hold a low confidence value. The machine keeps teaching us that the artifact is the only thing that matters. I’m here to say the thinking matters, and connecting the thinking, the wrestling, and the conversation is the thing that refines ideas into ones worth keeping.