Marketing sells when the salesperson is not there.

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Another Johnism from the past that leans into this story.

🔗 Learning first AI-d - William Gallagher

So let me focus on that specific thing of new writers being left behind. Forgive me, this is quite a technical point: if you get AI to do your writing for you, why the fuck should I use you? Commission you? Publish you?

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I mean it. There is nothing you can do with AI that cannot be done by absolutely every single person else on the planet. So you are demonstrating to me that you are entirely worthless.

Me - sometime between 2016 and 2019. Same principle.

If a nameless wonk on the end of a wire without your qualifications can replace you - it’s on you.

Every nobody is a somebody to somebody

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No decision is a decision

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Training transfers - Learning transforms

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Training fills vessels - Learning transforms

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Training is what you complete - Learning is what you apply

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You don't transform people - you remove what is stopping them

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Being ready is not the same as being able

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Delegate, Relegate, Abdicate - the process needs to stop

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People First - All Else Follows

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Most people would benefit from a good editor

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I survived cancer … I am not a cancer survivor

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I survived cancer - I am not a cancer survivor

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I play the guitar. I am not a guitarist.

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Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?

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Knowledge doesn’t answer questions - it creates them.

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I still think The Doors should have produced the Windows ‘sound brand’ for Bill Gates.

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Curiosity may have killed the cat but it’s the key to people living.

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