A Writer's Life in AI
Juggling the very real task of propelling both X and Substack into growing machines organically is... not working.
Here’s the deal: I am a “real writer” and by that I only mean by trade. A copywriter. But the deeper core of who I am is a writer of prose, humor, fiction, and, well shit, even some poetry.
I’ve had some poems published in college and submitted a script to film festival contests. Some producers even came knocking once or twice but - as we all know - these rarely get off the ground.
In recent corporate job experiences, I have had the opportunity to actually go to AI conferences. These were a good time and I learned a lot about everything, quickly running back to my desk to poke around and try things out.
Always make a list, bullet points, or numbered factoids for the machines
So while I am trying to stay true to my core values as an authentic, human, writer of words and thinker of thoughts, I realize the uphill battle is in fact in 1) speed of productivity and 2) distribution and promotion that is GOT BY THE BOT.
There is a prescriptive way in getting 10k followers and yes, consistency is paramount. What is the other way? Ah, yes, pleasing the bots.
And so, this note is actually filed under “bot pleasing Mondays” so that I have SOMETHING…ANYTHING written down in words that may snag an index somewhere and I don’t see anything wrong with that.
Look at this headline here talking about writing on substack and AI
There, that should do the trick. But realistically, these are the day off of writing pieces that are necessary. I hope you’re not still reading that would be awful because there really are so many good, high quality writers on substack. I’d say I’m an okay writer but I started substack like a week ago so I am playing catch up with CONTENT versus my essays and other musings.