Self-Maintenance

“I will never let that dumbing down of self that everybody says the risk of AI is. I'll never let that happen because of the way that I maintain myself.”

“One is it makes me lazy. So I need to intentionally say, "No, I'm going to keep thinking for myself." I need to, again, similar to the person that was learning, retain the critical thinking. Otherwise it gets lost because it's a muscle. So we need to keep practicing and using it. And this is one thing I'm really keen on passing to the more junior colleagues. It's like, you cannot skip that. Forget about that, because otherwise you will be a solo lead really soon and you cannot delegate that critical thinking and problem solving to the machine.”

“I unplug on the weekends. I go down in the art studio. I paint my brains out all weekend. I go in the garden.”

“I unplug. I leave my phone in the house. I play with my dogs. Like I purposefully unplug.”

“Oh god. There's a lot of things that I say I'm going to continue doing the hard way and then I don't, because I'm short on time. I really try to continue designing, because I just redid our research integrity websites and I really try to continue brainstorming design on pen and paper. Like, starting my initial outline on pen and paper, and then maybe having a discussion with ChatGPT about how the information should go in. And even then, I still feel a little weird, because I don't want it to weaken that creativity or those skill sets. I'm sure there's other things too, but time management really is the key, and that forces me to continue using it.”