• Biometric login
• Real-time universal translation
• Lost a phone or computer? NBD, just instantly restore from a cloud backup
• Can tune out a plane full of loudly coughing human beings and watch a noise-cancelled, 200-foot-tall 3D movie on the moon

Step one: Notice the mindless tasks you’re doing, and automate them with AI.

Step two: Figure out ways of using AI to exceed what you would have done, not just replicate.

Never interrupt the flow.

When the desire to experiment with new platforms strikes, stay up late. Keep it fun, keep it light.

When the ideas are flowing, write until they stop.

And when you’re at a stand-still? Do mindless chores while watching a stupid show, or go outside.

Each feeling has its own utility.

The Upright Citizens Brigade is one of the premier teaching institutes for improv comedy.

Their latin motto is: Si Haec Insolita Res Vera Est, Quid Exinde Verum Est?

Which translates to: “If this unusual thing is true, what else is true?”

That question is at the heart of their entire improv comedy method, and the skillset of every improviser you admire.

It’s a way of looking at life that lets us mentally go down the rabbit hole and stick with crazy ideas. It’s how we stay in the scene and keep building on a premise.

It’s what Conan O’Brien does, it’s what Einstein did. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”

The very same technique that helps us be funnier on stage helps us explore the possibilities of technology—the good and the bad.

Asking this simple question daily will change the way we see the world.

By the time the late 80s rolled around, strings and singers had been doing their thing for hundreds of years.

But the primarily Black artists of Detroit Techno didn’t want to paint with that brush. Living in dystopian, post-crash Detroit, they were surrounded by a unique form of mechanized decay and abandonment.

They used drum machines and samplers to create the kind of techno music that expressed that emotion. And they threw  raves in former factories, which increased the connection between the listener and this new form of futuristic music. And no, a guitar and a drum-kit wouldn’t have done the job.

Today, I’m shocked when I see electronic musicians rallying against AI instead of using it daily.

Electronic music has always been about pushing the boundaries of technology. Why should this quest have stopped in the 90s or early 00s?

Don’t fight it, embrace it. Use these tools to create the emotion that’s right for this time, not twenty years ago.

Don’t use technology to create what you used to. Use it to create something new that you never could have before.