I read a plethora of Choose Your Own Adventure Books as a kid – they were great. I don’t know what today’s equivalent of them would be. But as I was writing this article, I could smell the paper, feel the book in my hands and was flooded with memories of flipping back and forth trying to outsmart the author – I never did. But here it is – Choose your Own Adventure.
AI can reimagine things. AI can pull together information. AI can get you started on a proposal. AI can answer questions. AI can build things. Show me AI coming up with an idea from scratch. I want that create AI, I want AI levels up, not just do something faster. Until then, I will wave at my IT overlords as they pass by with a mutual nod of appreciation for doing good work.
The only way to go is down when digging a hole. When you hit a rock, you switch from the big awesome tool to the small tiny tool that is slower progress but gets the job done. When one obstacle is cleared, you keep digging further and further until you hit the next one. Until you finally hit the bottom, and then you’re there and you’re done. You never know how far you are to…
Not Clickbait, not a redirect. How many times have you said that to yourself? “I never thought I’d be running my own company” “I never thought I could code like this.” “I never thought I could build this thing.” And yet, here you are, I guess you thought wrong AND never gave up – what a cool combination.
You can undo a choice. You aren’t committed for life, you might think you are, in that moment, but you can make a choice. The choice might not always be easy but it can be made. Making the choice is the hard part and is often what is confused with having no choice because in that moment we feel we have no way out. There is always choice – there is always an adventure to…