I am surprised every week by a new AI capability. It massively changes what I can accomplish, but everything feels... the same?

I would've thought new capabilities would give me a feeling of deep satisfaction and that I'd have endless drive to execute my backlog of ideas. But I was wrong, the backlog was never the problem. The problem was figuring out which idea was worth doing, why, and whether I actually wanted it.

I think our deepest problems are internal and, as of right now, AI is lacking context about what goes on inside of our brains. So asking AI questions like 'what makes me happy?', and 'what do I want?' will give you frustratingly bland and ordinary results. Probably regurgitating a list of unrelated facts it has memorized about you arranged to look like insight.

So AI thinking will multiply your ability to execute. But only thinking for yourself will change how you feel about it.