Joel Pearson

And I mean, I'm sure you guys have felt it.

I feel it.

The more AI you use, then when you go to think of something and do it without AI, it's kind of like, oh, man, it just...

Oh, I guess I'll do it.

It just feels like it gets harder and harder.

And so one of the things I'll talk about is what I call cognitive upsizing.

So yes, outsource to AI as much as you can.

And everyone has to do that for their work at the moment, pretty much.

So as soon as you do that, don't just sit back and do nothing.

Don't go and get a cup of coffee.

Don't treat it like a holiday.

do something else, find other tasks to do, which are juicier, which are more human-like, something that AI maybe can't do.

But the point you were getting to is to keep that feeling of discomfort or pressure up for that critical thinking.

So the analogy I'll sometimes use for people is, you know, using AI is like going to the gym and having one of those robotic exoskeletons, right?

And lifting the weights, but the robotic exoskeleton is doing the lifting for you.

So you go every day and of course your muscles aren't going to change.

So, and they're going to atrophy.

So using AI for cognitive tasks is something similar.

So we're set in a situation where we have to sort of use it and we have to find ways of maintaining our critical deep thinking.

And that's a really hard thing to balance.