I’m writing a book. Here are some initial thoughts.

In a bold blow to perfectionism, thought I’d share some very raw notes about what I’m up to these days. Family, CEO coaching, general cosmic witchery, persona growth, journaling and yoga, and …. writing a book. Podcast episodes and an online course are in the works behind the scenes, too, and my team has expanded lately, which feels wonderful!

Main points of the book so far:
— We are in the brave beginning of the mass adoption of AI. The age of fake news, deep fakes, and ChatGPT-generated writing everything. Hollywood writers are on strike as this is being written. This is the Death of Expertise, the End of Knowledge. The birth of…. whatever we are that is not merely that. The end of the illusion of the need to consume — the awakening of the existential crisis of humanity. Our need to exist = our need to create.
— The point of writing is not just to write a book, but to become the writer who can write the book. The only way to become that author is to write that book. In that sense, the book writes the author just as much as the author writes the book. Like when I gave birth to my first child, my first child also gave birth to me as a mother. I never could become a mother without my child being born. Our creations give birth to new versions of ourselves that we could never be simply by imagining or thinking our way through it. Writing my doctoral dissertation is what made me worthy of the title “Professor.” Yes, a lot of what I learned about the content of my research I learned by doing the research. But the exposition…