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You are a Generative Human Intelligence
Don’t let technology convince you to give away your humanity
We exist in a strange moment in history when capitalism is weaponizing technology to get us to give up our humanity. Many of the most powerful and popular new technological gadgets and apps aren’t designed to make you better at something. They are designed to do something for you, to convince you to give up a part of your humanity.
There is a push to convince you that you are not creative enough, that you don’t have time to write your story or paint that idea you got from that strange dream.
These are lies.
Creativity is at the core of what it means to be human. You are creative. You don’t have to be an artist or a writer to be creative. You just have to be human.
When you decide to remix two nights of leftovers to make street tacos so that your family will think they are eating something new and not leftovers, you are being creative.
The moment you invent a game for your kids to play, you are being creative. When you lie to get out of work or to avoid a boring meeting, you are being creative.
You do have enough time to be creative. The real problem is you don’t want to be bad at being creative. You want an app that will do…
