Hi Reader

If last week’s Friction Audit had you looking for where AI was doing too much, or too little, there’s one kind of friction it doesn’t catch: output that’s technically fine, and still not you.

I used to hand AI a lot of direction before I’d let it near a draft. Topic, theme, throughline — mapped out in advance, then worked through line by line.

If last week’s Friction Audit had you looking for where AI was doing too much, or too little, there’s one kind of friction it doesn’t catch: output that’s technically fine, and still not you.

I used to hand AI a lot of direction before I’d let it near a draft. Topic, theme, throughline — mapped out in advance, then worked through line by line.

Back then, it would even ask me questions: “How do you like to write? Are you descriptive? Are you poetic?”

I’d answer honestly. Yes, descriptive. Yes, poetic.

And the output would come back... wrong. Too poetic, when the moment called for something plainer. Or too academic, when it needed warmth. Accurate to what I’d said — and still not me.

It took me a while to figure out why — and the thing that actually fixed it wasn’t what I expected at all.

I wrote the whole story — and what changed it — in this week’s blog.

​Read the full Friction Audit →​

Talk soon,
Shilpa

P.S. If you’re ready to stop re-explaining yourself to AI every time you write, Build Your Personal Scribe is live now — $44, self-paced.

Your pause is your compass,
Shilpa 🦋

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