1/ ONESHOTTED? In Snow Crash, a few words could change how someone thought forever. That’s fiction, but it feels close now? Spend enough time working with AI and your style changes. Your sentences and ideas compress into recognizeable patterns. This is being “oneshotted.”

2/ The bar for attention keeps rising, and AI raises it faster. Anyone can summarize now. The new muscle is being the *unpredictable, but clearly correct next token.*

3/ What emotionally resonates, but takes risk? What analogy from far-apart fields connects? What is the skeleton key to an industry — but runs counter to the narrative? Say something people didn’t forsee but immediately know is right.

4/ For founders, telling the story of a company isn’t about sounding like the machine. “Oneshotted” is the failure state. You can use AI to go faster, while keeping the part of your voice and view that can’t be imitated. But you have to listen hard for it!

5/ At risk of learning from fiction — in Snow Crash, the survivors understood the code well enough to bend it. That’s the skill now. The rise of AI doesn’t make originality harder. It makes it easier to stand out, because most people will let the machine flatten their voice.

6/ Also, here 3 unintuitive things about how GPT5 can help you write —- just kidding.

going to leave an ad here for one of my favorite (very dry) books: how to read a book, by Mortimer Adler. It’s a useful skill. It might even teach you to read AI