How to Blog in the Age of AI

I will speak for myself, for what makes sense to me to read and to write. It does not make sense to me to be a secondary source of information. To summarise something that has already been published.

I have found that this kind of content does not interest me, neither to read nor to write.

How to blog in the age of artificial intelligence?

What interests me is being a primary source of information. To do something and write about it. To find something out and write about it. To have an interesting conversation and write about it. Because that is something no machine and no algorithm will ever replace: a unique experience. And it is not only that it is unique. It is the experience of someone who has put a great deal of energy into the subject. Someone who has spent, for example, ten years on it at work, or studied it for five years at university. And those are exactly the subjects, my subjects, I like to write about.

Writing without the help of artificial intelligence shapes me

Writing is very often a mental exercise for me, one that moves me forward. It is what some call writing as thinking. Within a subject I go deeper during writing than I have ever gone before. It shapes me.

This follows on from my earlier article, where I wrote that we should keep something for ourselves that we do alone, with effort and without help. Not because the machine cannot do it, but because it is what shapes us.

What to blog about in the age of artificial intelligence?

I have chosen to write about subjects that are difficult for me. Subjects that require me to understand something complex, to put my thoughts in order, or to reach information that is not publicly available.

And I enjoy this. It moves me, and perhaps it also brings value to someone who reads it. That, for me, is a double joy.