AI Is Your Rocket Ship to a Freer, More Creative Life

Automate Yourself. No one else will.

Prompt: A photo of the 80s, an old car on the road, a driver trying to find his way while fumbling through a paper map unfolded across the windshield.

Hey there, friends! Remember unfolding a giant paper map in your car, squinting at those tiny roads, half-lost and totally frustrated? Twenty years ago, that was us. Then, GPS came along. Some folks swore their trusty maps were better, but in almost a blink of an eye GPS devices were outselling maps by a margin. Then, just like that, GPS moved to our phones, and the TomTom devices were gone overnight. Just as we got good at navigating by using our phones, another paradigm shift is happening as we speak — the cars now drive themselves, no need for maps at all!

The way I see it, there’s a big parallel here between paper maps and AI. AI It’s not a trend or a fad. AI is a wave that will wipe out the old ways of doing things faster than we can get used to the change.

Each step—maps to GPS to self-driving cars—felt like just a phase to someone because most people were not inventing the future, they were just living in the present. Paper maps didn’t dream up the GPS to replace them. Gas cars didn’t invent the self-driving future either. Visionaries like Elon Musk did, picturing a world where driving itself was an ancient history. While most people were simply adapting to the changes around them, a small number of people were moving the world forward.

AI’s doing the same thing right now, but on steroids. What took decades for maps to evolve into Teslas, AI is pulling off in mere months. AI is a rocket ship to a life with more time, more creativity, more you, and it’s rapidly eating away the past.

Let me share how it’s changing my world.

Austin taco scene. Image generated by Midjourney. Prompt: A photo of the a taco truck near a beer garden in Austin, Texas. It's a sunny day. People are eating and drinking and cheering. — v7