If the app does all your thinking, don’t be surprised when it gets the job and you don’t.

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

Tools that produce finished work are useful right up to the point where they replace the part of you that should be developing. If the thinking happens outside your head every single time, what you are building is the ability to ask for output rather than the ability to produce it, and those two skills have very different futures.

Keep a line for yourself about where the tool starts. Try the problem first, then let the tool check you or extend you rather than begin for you. When you do use it, explain the result to someone. If you cannot, you did not learn it.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

How much of your thinking now happens inside an app?

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