Rethinking Productivity When AI becomes your thinking partner

For years, I thought of productivity in terms of speed: how quickly I could capture ideas in Evernote, draft posts, polish them, and post them. But too often, the ideas just sat there. Half-formed. Waiting.

This has changed since I began using ChatGPT.

Now, when an idea strikes, I speak it into my phone. What follows is a conversation, not a task. I explore, question, and reshape. It’s no longer about pushing faster—it’s about removing friction. Thoughts don’t pile up. They move. I can often go from idea to post in a few hours.

This shift isn’t about working harder. It’s about working with something—an AI that helps me think better, not just write faster.

I’ve explored this shift in more depth in a post in my blook:
Rethinking Productivity with LLMs