Ann Handley
Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing, partner at MarketingProfs, and writer of the fortnightly Total Annarchy newsletter.
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Their wordsBut it does mean that speed and efficiency, on their own, aren't making the work better.
↗New Data Just Dropped! Latest Blogging Researchannhandley.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsAI makes it stupid-easy to remove effort and friction. But friction is like cholesterol or Wizard of Oz witches: There are good kinds and bad kinds.
↗New Data Just Dropped! Latest Blogging Researchannhandley.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe lesson isn't "go slow." It's "know where slowing down delivers outsized results." When speed becomes cheap, judgment carries a premium.
↗New Data Just Dropped! Latest Blogging Researchannhandley.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 13 days earlier
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Their wordsInformation is ridiculously abundant. Your judgment, taste, and perspective are literally all you have to work with now.
↗Make Posteingänge Sexy Again: 9 Ingredients for an Email Readers Want to Openannhandley.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsDespite literal years of evidence that people value true connection, most of us rarely respond back.
↗Make Posteingänge Sexy Again: 9 Ingredients for an Email Readers Want to Openannhandley.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsVoice isn't something you add to the writing. It's what's left when you stop editing yourself out of it.
↗Make Posteingänge Sexy Again: 9 Ingredients for an Email Readers Want to Openannhandley.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 2 weeks earlier
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Their wordsAI models can start to decay. The output (gross) starts to flatten. Sentences sound more repetitive. Boring.
↗Don’t Outsource This Part of Writingannhandley.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Original human-written text that has not been touched by AI is becoming increasingly valuable.
Their wordsAnyway, the bottom line is that human-written language reliably untainted by AI is becoming valuable.
↗Don’t Outsource This Part of Writingannhandley.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsAI sucked it all up without discernment, because AI cannot discern.
↗AI Slop, Accusations, And A Better Wayannhandley.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Pattern recognition and replication is fundamentally what machine-learning systems do best.
Their wordsSo of course AI has adopted it; pattern-recognition/replication is what machines do best.
↗AI Slop, Accusations, And A Better Wayannhandley.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Skipping the struggle in a task also means skipping the growth that struggle would have produced.
Their wordsThat's what I mean when I say that if you skip the struggle, you miss the growth. Sometimes the struggle is all that really matters.
↗AI Slop, Accusations, And A Better Wayannhandley.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 2 weeks earlier
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Their wordsYou can use AI without handing it the work you love doing, or the work that means something to you.
↗How To Secure More Speaking Gigsannhandley.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsAnd at the beginning, free is how you build your reputation. Free is how you ultimately get paid.
↗How To Secure More Speaking Gigsannhandley.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 11 days earlier
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A shift toward faster media formats changes how people read rather than ending reading altogether
Their wordsFaster formats don't automatically destroy reading. They change it.
↗Is the Age of Reading Actually Over?annhandley.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsWhen everything else gets faster and cheaper, the stuff that requires real-time and attention becomes more important, more valuable.
↗Is the Age of Reading Actually Over?annhandley.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThe way we take care of small things is how we take care of big things.
↗Why Care About The Stupid Em Dash Anyway?annhandley.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsAI uses em dashes. Humans use em dashes. That does not make an em dash an AI fingerprint any more than Batman's cape makes everyone in a bath towel Batman.
↗Why Care About The Stupid Em Dash Anyway?annhandley.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 2 weeks earlier
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A good book clears out stale assumptions and disturbs the old ideas a reader has let accumulate.
Their wordsA good book sweeps a corner of your brain. Clears out a stale assumption. Disturbs the ecosystem of old ideas you've been letting accumulate rent-free.
↗7 New-ish Books I Love (Including 2 Special Ones)annhandley.com
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When a shortcut is available to everyone, the real competitive edge is knowing when not to use it.
Their wordsBecause when everyone has access to the same shortcuts, the real edge is knowing when not to take them.
↗Sorry for Ghosting: Where I’ve Been (Pssst New Book!)annhandley.com