Honeydew Struggles Explained

Good Honeydew is one of the tastiest fruits imaginable.

But they’re incredibly difficult to come by.

Why?

Well for starters, unlike cantaloupe, they’re basically scentless when ripe.

So even if you find a good one, it’s impossibly difficult to tell. Then there’s their signature signs for ripeness, such as — a waxy skin, heft, and a slight give at the blossom end — which are subtle and unfortunately, very inconsistent. Further, they tend to have a narrow window of perfection and move from bland to mealy mush at the blink of an eye.

And most importantly…

Like almost all other fruits, they continue to ripen off the vine in texture… but unlike almost all other fruits, they do not continue to ripen in flavor…

So while they’re harvested early to survive shipping, they almost never achieve their hallmark honey-like flavor.

And I think AI writing lends itself to the same problem.

Not that you shouldn’t do it.

But if your inputs aren’t ripe, your outputs are simply going to taste like cucumber flavored sadness.

So how do you get ripe inputs for writing whether you write the old fashioned way (or have AI do some of the heavy lifting for you)?

Well, you’ve got to play to your strengths…

Some people are good at writing, and they should just write… and whether they have AI helping them or not, you’d never know, because they’re good at writing, and 99.9% of the content comes straight from their dome even if they have a little bit of AI powered assistance. Or maybe they’re banging out fully AI generated content based on some voice notes because they’ve trained AI to match their writing patterns.

Which will work for a while, but eventually you need to grow as a writer and your AI writing assistant will get stuck in the past if you’re not consistently honing your chops and updating your instructions and expectations.

Anyway, that’s one strength to play to.

But there are others.

Some people are good at talking.

On camera, in person, or on stage… they can just amble on all day long and people are enthralled by them. These are The Jordan Petersons, The Brené Browns, and The Seth Godins of the world. All of them are actually great writers on their own accord. But they’re charismatic as heck on camera, and I think they owe a lot of that to their commitment to writing.

Why?

Because writing is thinking.

So it’s best not to outsource too much of it to a machine.

There’s lazy use of AI…

And then there’s and useful use of it.

So that’s another type of person, the fluent-speaker-slash-author type.

But there’s also people out there who are great entrepreneurs, great speakers, and great leaders… but they don’t write very much. And maybe AI can help them a little more than the rest of us. Or at the very least, a writer who knows how to use AI that can help them write their stuff. I don’t know a lot of these people off-hand, but Gary Vee is one that comes to mind for sure.

He’s made it very clear…

He doesn’t read.

He doesn’t write.

He simply takes action and gets results.

Very charismatic speaker.

But he’s published several books and they’re all great. Written by ghostwriters of course, maybe with or without the use of AI. But since they’re done well, who cares? For the audio versions that are read by Gary Vee himself, you’d never know it wasn’t written by him if he didn’t tell you as much.

Anyway…

All to say, writing is a very powerful tool for formulating world-shaping ideas and getting your message to spread.

But there’s also a percentage of the population who is maybe better off just out-sourcing their writing because it’s simply not, and never will be, their zone of genius. But in every single one of the situations mentioned above, there exists a person, who deeply understands writing, that is definitely involved. Which is important. Because the written word has the power to change the world at scale.

And even if you just want to influence your tiny little corner of the market…

Writing is how you reach more people, at scale, without trying to handle the complexities of human transformation on a 1 to 1 basis, where it takes up all your time.

One reason I recommend writing daily emails.

Or at the very least, weekly.

And in some cases, having them outright written for you as long as you’re willing to do the work to come up with ideas, concepts, and frameworks that you’d like to have written about for you.

So you build your philosophy, and your following, and your digital footprint all at the same time.

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Best,

Kevin Hood