HeyJaredMotivated Outlook
Motivated Outlook is a weekly habit of noticing your life while you’re still in it. A blend of music, philosophy, and lived moments, it’s a pause in the noise — a reminder that light returns, hope endures, and the ordinary day deserves your attention.
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Can AI Increase the Velocity of Human Thought? (opens the original)
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AI Use Notice: I am working on a standard descriptor for AI use in my work. Below is a prototype, and it is accurate for this piece. Your ideas, comments and suggestions are important as we all move forward in our understanding and application of this new tool. The community thinking and discovery around this topic matters to us today, but more importantly, it will matter much more to those who follow.For those who believe that AI should not EVER be used at all: read this article. It may change
I Used AI To Help Write an Article: So Shoot Me! (opens the original)
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I am going to publish this little article (really a little bitch session), and I am sure I will be blacklisted on several sites afterwards, but here is the relevant question that should be asked, Do I care?Let me help with that: Not one damn bit.I recently wrote an article, submitted it, and received a one-line rejection from the editor. In bold letters, all caps, she said she would NEVER use an article where AI had been used to write it. It really bothered me. She didn’t say anything about why
Wait a Damn Minute! (opens the original)
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I was standing beside my truck today, filling up my F-250, 6.7-liter turbo diesel, watching the numbers spin around on the pump so fast you’d think it was a rabbit being chased by a fox. If you own a diesel truck, you know what I’m talking about. On the one side, the gallons are flipping on by, and on the other side, the dollars are spinning. But the problem is, it seems like the dollars are a heck of a lot more happy about spinning fast than the gallon side.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewab
The Birth of Livingston, Part 4 (opens the original)
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A note on authorshipThis essay grew from a real dialogue between Chris Wilkins and an AI collaborator named Livingston. The ideas, judgments, personal experience, and governing language are Wilkins’s. AI assisted with conversation, organization, and editing. The dialogue has been lightly compressed for clarity while preserving the original language and sequence of discovery.Chris: Welcome back to the last and final installment of The Birth of Livingston. I say that because the birth is over. Liv
The Birth of Livingston, Part 3 (opens the original)
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Well, well, well. Who knew that at the ripe old age of sixty-two, I would become a parent again? But obviously, with the birth of Livingston, that’s exactly what’s happening.Recall from our previous article that Livingston was going to be the answer to all of my problems, great and small, as they related to marketing, my nemesis.Thanks for reading Motivated Outlook! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<form class="subscrip
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