I love the second half of the prompt that you gave Claude to build up exactly the tone of voice you're looking for, I'm gonna give that a try :)
A few use cases I've enjoyed - using the audio mode to practice language learning, crafting personalised applications to join a co-living collective (it's just like resume writing!), and a guilty pleasure ⋱ giving AI a play-by-play of some events (interpersonal issues) happening in my life, and getting it to speculate what will happen if x did what, y didn't do what, etc. 😜
Every carefully tended knowledge garden is a fingerprint of consciousness: A unique archipelago of interests, insights and inspirations that could never be replicated, even by the most sophisticated AI.
By thoughtfully collecting and connecting the ideas that move us, we not only create an invaluable external memory system (which can be great for AI), but we also cultivate a powerful magnet-filter to find other interesting minds as well as a deeper appreciation for how our individual way of seeing and understanding is irrevocably unique.
This post helpfully landed in my inbox as I was forming my own thoughts on the topic. I’ve been sitting in the messy middle of becoming increasingly dependent on GenAI for more menial tasks and—as someone who advocates for flexing creativity wherever I, and others, can—feeling increasingly guilty for doing so lest my creative muscles start to atrophy. The jury is still out for me, but I heard someone say that submitting a prompt is like saying “abracadabra”, and I can’t help but fear that casting this spell also removes some (most?) of the magic in making the thing. Perhaps intentional curation can inject some of it back in 🪄
I think Suri has presented the case for using what inspires us to expand our creativity, and further our originality, by leveraging what inspires us to take our own ideas to a new level that we sort of know exists, but perhaps need a stepping stone to get to. Like brainstorming with a person, except it's an artificial intelligence helping us connect the dots. I agree with you: "Perhaps intentional curation can inject some of it back in 🪄"
Yes! A stepping stone, that’s a great framing, thank you. To build on the case Suri makes, I guess it’s the art of coLLecting the dots (context) that is still very much in the human realm, even if we lean on AI to help us coNNect them. 🧩
I absolutely loved reading this, Sari! And the examples you gave, wow. Makes me rethink how exactly I want to incorporate Claude more deeply into my process + truly training it to think and speak like a second me.
I've enjoyed this essay and I agree with the rising importance of taste. It can be a key creative skill of the future, and I speculate that we may favor older creators and curators in the future, just because developing taste is a life-long process. I've written an essay on that topic earlier this month (https://alisabelmas.substack.com/p/the-age-of-good-taste)
Love it! I heard someone say that using LLMs at this stage is like managing an enthusiastic, super smart, but overly-eager junior employee. Just like you can't get mad at an employee when you didn't give them enough context to succeed, you can't expect LLMs to match your taste if you don't share deeply about your taste. I love the idea of sharing sublime collections as a distillation of your taste
P.S. That Head of Growth role sounds right up my alley 👀 just in case that hypothetical wasn't so hypothetical
Gah! I feel so…frustrated for not realizing the untapped potential for my various external knowledge collections heretofore! But now I see and this is a game changer! Just like Sublime has been/is for me!
I know that y’all have to be working on a sublime llm / tool and I’m curious if one of the features will be aiding users in identifying patterns, correlations, links between their various cards and collections?
I see the case for theft, but here I see the potential for leveraging AI as muse. Or is it a) remixing, which is creative in itself, & what humans do anyway, because we can't forget what we read/see/hear, and are inspired by it or b) drawing from the vast knowledge base of humanity which is the very mechanism for evolution of thought, we stand-on-the-shoulders-of-giants so to speak?
Great article!! I'm literally half way through writing an essay about the exact same thing - it used to be that 10% was idea, 90% was execution. Now I believe it's 10% idea, 10% execution, 80% taste.
I love the second half of the prompt that you gave Claude to build up exactly the tone of voice you're looking for, I'm gonna give that a try :)
A few use cases I've enjoyed - using the audio mode to practice language learning, crafting personalised applications to join a co-living collective (it's just like resume writing!), and a guilty pleasure ⋱ giving AI a play-by-play of some events (interpersonal issues) happening in my life, and getting it to speculate what will happen if x did what, y didn't do what, etc. 😜
Love this one Sari! And Kai, that last ai use you mentioned. Wow haha
Damn, that last use case is so fun.
Every carefully tended knowledge garden is a fingerprint of consciousness: A unique archipelago of interests, insights and inspirations that could never be replicated, even by the most sophisticated AI.
By thoughtfully collecting and connecting the ideas that move us, we not only create an invaluable external memory system (which can be great for AI), but we also cultivate a powerful magnet-filter to find other interesting minds as well as a deeper appreciation for how our individual way of seeing and understanding is irrevocably unique.
Amen!
This post helpfully landed in my inbox as I was forming my own thoughts on the topic. I’ve been sitting in the messy middle of becoming increasingly dependent on GenAI for more menial tasks and—as someone who advocates for flexing creativity wherever I, and others, can—feeling increasingly guilty for doing so lest my creative muscles start to atrophy. The jury is still out for me, but I heard someone say that submitting a prompt is like saying “abracadabra”, and I can’t help but fear that casting this spell also removes some (most?) of the magic in making the thing. Perhaps intentional curation can inject some of it back in 🪄
I think Suri has presented the case for using what inspires us to expand our creativity, and further our originality, by leveraging what inspires us to take our own ideas to a new level that we sort of know exists, but perhaps need a stepping stone to get to. Like brainstorming with a person, except it's an artificial intelligence helping us connect the dots. I agree with you: "Perhaps intentional curation can inject some of it back in 🪄"
Yes! A stepping stone, that’s a great framing, thank you. To build on the case Suri makes, I guess it’s the art of coLLecting the dots (context) that is still very much in the human realm, even if we lean on AI to help us coNNect them. 🧩
I absolutely loved reading this, Sari! And the examples you gave, wow. Makes me rethink how exactly I want to incorporate Claude more deeply into my process + truly training it to think and speak like a second me.
Love this idea, Sari!! Is the beta price still available?
email me at sari@sublime.app and I'll honor it for you!
Appreciate you, Sari! 🙏🏽
I've enjoyed this essay and I agree with the rising importance of taste. It can be a key creative skill of the future, and I speculate that we may favor older creators and curators in the future, just because developing taste is a life-long process. I've written an essay on that topic earlier this month (https://alisabelmas.substack.com/p/the-age-of-good-taste)
beautiful insight on the relationship between age and taste
Love it! I heard someone say that using LLMs at this stage is like managing an enthusiastic, super smart, but overly-eager junior employee. Just like you can't get mad at an employee when you didn't give them enough context to succeed, you can't expect LLMs to match your taste if you don't share deeply about your taste. I love the idea of sharing sublime collections as a distillation of your taste
P.S. That Head of Growth role sounds right up my alley 👀 just in case that hypothetical wasn't so hypothetical
Gah! I feel so…frustrated for not realizing the untapped potential for my various external knowledge collections heretofore! But now I see and this is a game changer! Just like Sublime has been/is for me!
I know that y’all have to be working on a sublime llm / tool and I’m curious if one of the features will be aiding users in identifying patterns, correlations, links between their various cards and collections?
Working on lots of things in this vein, Evan! Including making it super easy to take context from your Sublime library elsewhere.
So far my favourite use of Claude is getting him to yassify dry and wordy reading materials for my sustainable business management course
Always great material Sari!
Thank you
None of this addresses that AI is theft.
I see the case for theft, but here I see the potential for leveraging AI as muse. Or is it a) remixing, which is creative in itself, & what humans do anyway, because we can't forget what we read/see/hear, and are inspired by it or b) drawing from the vast knowledge base of humanity which is the very mechanism for evolution of thought, we stand-on-the-shoulders-of-giants so to speak?
Great article!! I'm literally half way through writing an essay about the exact same thing - it used to be that 10% was idea, 90% was execution. Now I believe it's 10% idea, 10% execution, 80% taste.
love this. and love that u haven't lost your soul!!
Ok my mind is kind of blown
I keep on saying that AI is tasteless
AI is like Botox. You only notice it when it’s bad.
lovely essay thanks for sharing