AI Is Replacing Writing, and It’s Making Our Thinking Worse

Stop prompting. Start writing. When AI replaces writing, we become stupider.

Admit it. You write less than ever. The implications are dangerous.

Writing is thinking.

Building a sentence forces you to decide what you actually believe. Your brain cannot write clearly about things you do not understand. When you replace writing with prompting, you skip the logic of thinking.

Bezos banned PowerPoint at Amazon for a reason. Bullet points let you hide. They are "buzzword drivers" in the corporate world: vague, high-level, and disconnected. Amazon meetings start with silence. Everyone reads a 6-page Word memo before anyone speaks.

Writing for thinking. Meetings for decisions.

Our biggest worry today shouldn't be whether AI writes better than humans. The worry is what stops happening in our brains when we stop writing. We lose the commitment to a point of view.

You are smart. You don't need fluff. You need 3 ways to fix your brain by writing:

1. Analog first. Write on paper when you wake up. No keyboard. It forces a different connection with the brain. It clarifies what you want to build that day. Check Julia Cameron's "The Artist's Way" for the details.

2. The Feynman Test. Read something, then rewrite it from memory. If you can't explain it simply, you haven't learned it. You just copied it. Bonus: explain it to your kids or your parents.

3. Ditch the deck. Write the doc. Use plain text and structured headers. It is more readable to humans and surprisingly easier for AI to understand, too.Writing is thinking.