Soham Deshpande

Analog ↔ digital cycling

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A desk with books, a pen, a notebook and a pot of pens. An arrow curves down from it to a laptop with AI in a thought bubble, a phone showing a feed labelled doom scroll, and a closed book. Another arrow curves back up to the desk — the loop between working on paper and working on a screen.
A hand-drawn adoption curve. Time runs from zero to twenty-five years, adoption from zero to one hundred per cent. Generative AI rises almost vertically within the first few years, far steeper than the internet, smartphones, the automobile and radio, which all climb gradually across the full twenty-five. Source noted as the New York Times.
Adoption curves, redrawn from the New York Times.

In the age of tech, where we have never experienced such crazy adoption to any
new tech before — it would be stupid to not get on the AI boat and get
irrelevant.

But that being said, the toll that AI is taking on our brain functioning is
real.

Analog ↔ digital cycling is what I use to go from brainstorming to execution.

Brainstorm and Execute as two boxes in a loop, arrows running both ways between them. Beneath, four numbered steps: one, think on paper; two, research on computer; three, architect on paper; four, implement on computer. The whole set is labelled analog-digital cycling.
The loop: paper, screen, paper, screen.
Three numbered points in handwriting. One: keeps you grounded. Two: keeps you relevant. Three: prevents you from becoming dumb.