Good question! I realize now that I didn’t put in anything concrete to do. Perhaps I should write a follow up piece with actions… Anyway, things that I am trying to do:

• I never ever click on the AI assistant button (unless it is a mistake)
• I write, proofread and edit by myself. I try to use these as a learning moment, looking up synonyms or grammar rules so that I can commit them to memory for the next time. I have an open source tool called Obsidian to store my notes on markdown.
• I research on my own, look up multiple sources for things, try to make connections and come up with new concepts. This means looking up more than one result for each search. I use the search engine Kagi with all the AI turned off.
• At work, I try to write my own notes for meetings, when possible in a physical notebook, so that I can commit things to memory. I write my own documentation, and I troubleshoot things on a whiteboard.
• I try to limit the amount of time I send on platforms that ‘learn’ from me and show me algorithmic results tailored for me, like TikTok and Youtube, and instead I am trying to move to sources curated by humans, like this forum, radio for music, recommendations from friends.
• I have a ‘dumb’ keyboard on my phone. Predictive text takes away my capacity to type without typos, decide what it is I actually wanted to write, and to top it off it sends all my data to tech companies.
• The last big one, which kind of touches everything else is to move away as much as possible from platforms that use my data to train AI or try to force me to use AI. This is massive, and I am going really slowly. I have a phone with GrapheneOS, and I am slowly moving out of Google. I will move all the PCs I can to Linux. I am moving to open source software where I can that doesn’t have AI assistance. I try to turn off/uninstall AI from all the other places. Trying to convince all my friends to move out to Signal too.

That is a good point. To be honest I just started using substack because it was the first option I thought of to create something quickly. Do you have any platform suggestions that don’t require a long time to setup?