Dear Friends,
I read a post on LinkedIn recently where the person said:
“I am pretty busy, so I am going to have my AI create daily posts for me to share here. Just wanted to let you know.”
Now, why would she need to keep writing when she has no time? Because that is the game today … we might call it “flooding the zone.” The focus: create as much content as possible, all the time.
Don’t have the time? Let AI do it.
Trump advisor Steve Bannon made this term popular saying in an interview:
“all we have to do is flood the zone. Every day we hit them with three things. They'll bite on one, and we'll get all of our stuff done, bang, bang, bang.”
Don’t just take one controversial action, he suggested, take so many that that the other side cannot keep up. Throw everything at people all the time.
Words and Energy
AI, in many ways, lets us all flood the zone. It can create content non-stop.
How much of what we see is created by a human—or by AI? It’s becoming harder to tell.
However, while AI can create words, it cannot create presence. We can say hello with care and depth, or we can say hello with disregard and spite. The word is the same, the energy and intention is different.
And AI does not know energy. It does not know when to stop, when to pause in a conversation, when to ask a question instead of provide an answer.
I use AI almost every day, but lets remember what makes us human: It is not just our words, it is the feeling, the connection, the empathy, that we feel in our hearts, and that words can at times carry.
Bill Clinton came up with a phrase in his presidential election, “It’s the economy, stupid.”
We could shift that today to, “It’s not the words, it’s the heart, stupid.”
We could probably take out the word stupid, but the point is the heart is what connects.
May we all remember that as we make our way today. Words matter, but the heart matters more.
Blessings,
SOREN
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