How to write in the time of AI? Should we listen to the advice of people that we should write small and easy articles and essays? How do readers emotionally connect to authors? What role does the purpose of life play in writing? Why do writers who write for the mass slowly lose the following and business? How to outcompete AI in writing? Why does practical experience play a major role in writing? Why do such a small percentage of people wants to invest in reading?
“If I asked my customers what they want, they would have said a faster horse cart”
-Henry Ford, Founder, Ford Motor Company
A. Theory of Why “not Do What the Mass Ask You to do”
Based on the principle that 90% of the population at any time doesn’t know what they need, and most are guided by their wants, which are guided by their feelings, which are guided by their core need to have a group identity, and based on the fact that people like those who are like them if one serves the “assumed wants” of those ignorant about their need, then one become the 90% average.
So, when a lot of people start telling you the same thing, it doesn’t mean that they are right, but it simply means that all those people have not spent enough time developing their independent thoughts and ideas. If anyone sits over a problem for a significant amount of time, thinks about it, develop the ideas into live ideas that breathe, thinks about the contrary aspects, thinks through science, philosophy, and laws, and applies models and facts to the idea, one would start understanding that every aspect of life is complex and multidimensional.
Good authoring is all about covering a subject or an idea or a story in such detail that it creates a lasting impression in a reader’s mind. The idea is not just to write something that many people read, but the eventual impact on the readers.
A contrarian argument can be “An author writes for a reader, and why then not listen to the reader and write simple narratives?”
