I’m a hopeful person.
I think we have to be
hopeful people
to build businesses.
We hope there will be
customers
for our products/services
when we bring them to market.
But I don’t
pretend human nature
is anything other
than what it is.
I know, for example,
that while
people SHOULD boycott
books that are written
by AI,
the majority of people
WON’T.
The average person doesn’t care
who ‘writes’ the books
they buy.
And they don’t care
about the future of books.
They only care about the product.
They only care about themselves
and their enjoyment of that product.
That’s human nature.
We are selfish.
Knowing human nature,
accepting our flaws,
saves time and effort
and it focuses us on solutions
that have a better chance
of being successful.
Returning to my example,
writers shouldn’t waste time and effort
trying to convince
readers to boycott AI.
They should, instead, focus their energies
on deriving
solutions that have a better chance
of being successful.
Accept humans
for who we truly are,
flaws and everything else,
and make better decisions.