Yeah, I definitely think that the pace of this is way outrunning our ability to understand how to deal with it culturally and politically, and that’s likely to create some real problems soon.

So crazy!

So how do you start? Literally with anything. Tonight's dinner recipe. Researching some Excel formula you need.

Or every time you go to search something on Google, try asking ChatGPT/Gemini first.

Don't overthink it, just start using it for anything. Flight time is flight time, all hours count.

I think the same goes for AI today. *All* of us are going to be using it as a tool in our jobs one day. And, if you can start to develop mechanical sympathy with it, by just flying the plane more regularly, so to speak, then when all the hobbyists show up alter, you'll be the skilled pro.

The same goes for craftsmen making things out of wood.

They've developed mechanical sympathy for their tools, and can use them in a much more nuanced, subconscious way, which separates the casual hobbyist from the skilled professional.

Pilots who develop mechanical sympathy with the aircraft they fly become more intuitive, safer, and ultimately better pilots because they're "one" with the machine.

You know how when you're parking your own car, how you just know how much room you've got until you bump into something? Like you can just feel it?

That's mechanical sympathy. You've driven your car enough that you've develop an intuition about the machine's limits, tolerances and tendencies.

yeah, I think that's definitely good counsel, and certainly a view I share as well (show early work earlier). I sometimes end up being handed finished artifacts by clients and others, with whom I didn't have the luxury of participating in early iterations, which adds some complexity