Deb Liu
American technology executive; CEO of Ancestry from 2021 to 2025, earlier a Facebook executive who built Marketplace, co-founder of Women in Product, and founder of Ember AI.
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Their wordsAI makes work easier, but the easier it gets, the less of yourself you put into it. Besides making your work sound like everyone else’s, AI makes you less of a participant in your own work. You are less likely to remember it, and less likely to feel you own it.
↗AI Cognitive Atrophydebliu.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsOwn every word. One of the problems with AI is that we are outsourcing both the thinking and the ownership. When you create something, it is yours, and you have a pride of ownership. If you can’t stand behind every word, don’t submit it.
↗AI Cognitive Atrophydebliu.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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AI can make people faster and sharper, but it does not replace judgment, reasoning and ownership.
Their wordsAI can make us faster, sharper, and more capable, but it doesn’t replace judgment, reasoning, and ownership.
↗AI Cognitive Atrophydebliu.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsHere is the secret to most knowledge jobs: the most important things you learn at work are rarely written down or learned from a book. As AI gets better and better at everything that can be written down, the things that can’t are becoming the most valuable skills we have.
↗Chicken Sexing: How to Build Expertise One Tap at a Timedebliu.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsGet your reps. There is no shortcut. I have written this newsletter nearly every week for five years, and my writing only got better because I kept shipping it. You have to put in the time to build the muscle. Volume is the path to quality, and only by doing can you build intuition.
↗Chicken Sexing: How to Build Expertise One Tap at a Timedebliu.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsAI can help you do more. But doing more doesn’t automatically mean doing it better.
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Their wordsThat’s where we are with AI. We are not at the end of this story. We are in the first chapter. And most of the world hasn’t started reading yet.
- 7 days earlier
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Everyone already has a personal brand; the question is whether it reflects who they really are.
Their wordsThat is the thing about personal brands that no one tells you clearly enough. You already have one. It is already speaking. The question is not whether people are forming associations about you, because they are. The question is whether those associations reflect the truth of who you are.