For those of you in that sweet spot between holidays where you’re technically “working” but also catching up on AI learning, this one’s for you.
In 1980, Steve Jobs said the computer is “a bicycle for the mind.” He was inspired by a study showing that humans on bicycles are more efficient than any animal on the planet. Computers, he argued, do the same thing for our thinking.
Forty-five years later, the analogy needs an update: AI is the bicycle for the mind.
The bicycle didn’t replace your legs. It made them more powerful. You still had to pedal.
AI works the same way. It doesn’t think for you. It makes your thinking go further. You still have to do the work, ask the questions, and decide where to go.
The best part is just like cycling, the more you use it well, the stronger you get.
If you want to build that muscle, check out the specific questions I use to push my thinking with AI. Link in the comments.