Do not use the word “content.”
Never again.
“Content” is the word of commodified sameness. It takes whatever you are doing (writing a sentence, filming a video, recording a snippet of audio) and strips it of all the value you should be injecting into it.
It tells you that the thoughts in your head are anodyne crap.
It allows you to lower the bar for yourself. It allows AI slop to replace your thoughts.
You are not a commodity. Refuse to use words that imply that you are.
If someone doesn't say the opposite of what you say, it's not a POV (point of view) -- it's a tagline, and a weak one at that. Some examples of bad POV attempts: --Others say they care, but we really do. --We hold nothing back. --The truth, liberated. If someone in...
I step off the bus in Kuşadası. The bus pulls away. Someone steps into the passenger seat of a car and pulls the door shut. The car pulls away. I am alone now. Through my shoes I feel the dirt and gravel of the parking lot beneath me. The voice in the back of my head...
I'm standing with drink in hand, talking to someone I just met at a party. He asks me how AI is affecting my business. I try to look serious and deep, but I can't help it: A huge smile breaks out on my face. "AI is the best thing to happen to me since Covid," I say...