You know, one of the reasons I'm excited and bullish on AI is that it funnily brings back the idea that you need to BUILD things.
Up until now, it very much felt like the internet was populated of people giving advise (me first) and not actually doing much else. Contrarian takes, how-tos and the sorts is fun, yeah, but it can only exist for good if they're based on some real experience.
In other words, you gotta write about something else than writing in order to teach writing well. You have to do videos about something else than making videos in order to be able to teach how to make good videos. And all that jazz.
I'm not throwing rocks at anyone. Pre-AI was EXHAUSTING if you wanted to build any form of expertise-teaching-empire that was worth something (and it often felt like the only way to make a decent living).
so I'm hopeful when I see people talking about how they build stuff again. showing the stuff rather than throwing big concepts about how to do the stuff.
see : zara zhang on code as a medium as a perfect example
I'm giddy excited when I get to spend more time building than explaining how to build.
this morning, I've spent a couple of hours eyes deep into someone's content data, looking at the ideas and the stuff that's behind to build a notebook desk that allows me to understand my favorite creators better.
yesterday, I vibe coded real quick a browser extension that hides my substack feed so i'm not distracted by it when I shouldn't.
Maybe a big part of this is just.. new tech excitement learning. That's possible.
But doesn't it feel amazing ?