100 Plain Old Stories (Written without AI)

I got so fed up with everything social media,  the overwhelming content, the over abundance of access now. I kinda just want to get back to feeling real meaningful connections through our shared experiences. 

I thought how can I not hate this so much? So I’ve turned it into my own challenge to defy the obvious tech access - going completely the other way and not using AI for writing at all. Letting my mind be real & as open as possible. 

I needed something entirely refreshing. I’m getting you involved because I know how self-challenges / goals work - you kick off initially super motivated & then part way through, you lose the momentum & just give up. 

I'm pulling you in without permission as my accountability partner in this and I’m offering you a refreshing channel of genuinely written pieces without AI, and an agreement, none of these 100 days of articles is about selling you anything. So no conversion copy, no deals, no offers, just pure plain old stories. 

So here’s the challenge in 3 parts: 

• I’m writing 100 pieces without AI

• I’m publishing each day to Substack (a blog platform)

• I’m posting only a part of that piece onto Instagram & Linkedin (manually)

Who knows how long this will actually last. But I’m finally doing something creative just for me. 

A challenge that feels like it has some meaning behind it that is not connected to any funnel or bigger offer. 

It might be the decade of marketing experience or simply the bull-shit radar that we all are tuned to - I just want some realness. 

Even the challenge to use my own words & to reject the use of AI, coming from me - someone with an AI certification from MIT lol. 

It’s refreshing. 

It's actually been a while that I’ve been feeling a disdain for the overwhelm. Its a battle for me to appreciate the power of AI and its capabilities but yet find the right balance in the presence.

I also noticed how the tech tools were making things too easy. 

Integrating systems and processes just made it simple to have 50 pieces of mediocre content from 1, and the whole concept of repurposing content just became a huge content machine that had no deeper value, a vibe of detached authenticity. 

In a way it started to feel like because it could be done with minimal direct effort, that it felt less personalized & not worthy of our genuine intention. 

Pouring hours into something that so many tools could just do in seconds now felt like a waste of time. Like I could be attending to other things that truly needed me? 

Removing myself from the equation to maximize output was always part of my brand of ‘efficiency’ - Create more, while optimizing time. But there’s only so much your productivity levels can go before you start to get lost in it all. 

So this is why I’m removing AI out. 

There’s a 2 part commitment in this challenge, the writing part is feeding me creatively and rebelling the tech/AI and the other part is the ‘publishing part’.

Publishing has been the other consistency problem I’ve had. 

I might have had 45 captions pre-written for this year that I’ve not published & now feel so not relevant its not something I feel aligned to.

So part of this challenge to myself means actually posting - not letting any fear of judgment or care for its performance be part of this experience. 

This is important because technically I journal very often, I braindump on the regular without a problem. But to actually hit publish has been something I’ve struggled with. 

Thanks for being part of this, unwillingly or not haha but I appreciate any love here, any help or even questions of things you’d like to hear more about - I got 100 thought pieces to do so any ideas are totally welcome. 

Wish me luck.