The P/PC Balance: Is AI Secretly Harming Your Productivity?
This blog is not written by Chat GPT. And no, I can’t really prove that. Although hopefully the less than grammatically impeccable writing here proves it for me. So, why in the world, would a guy who wrote a blog on “3 Game-Changing AI Tips to Boost Your Productivity (and Save Your Sanity)” suddenly do anything but write his next blog with AI? Well, mostly because of this new study, called “Your brain on Chat GPT”, which shows that using AI weakens our mental muscles. Essay writers who used Chat GPT and then went back to boring old ways of DIY writing, showed significant declines in neural connectivity. Most could not remember what they just wrote. Pretty scary stuff. Which brings me onto the point of this blog. The P/PC balance introduced by Steven R. Covey in the book “7 habits of highly effective people”. P stands for production. PC stands for production capacity, as in your ability to produce in the future. See now AI would have explained that better, but since I am just a sill...