Nick Quick
@nickquick.bsky.social
I speak AI.
I'll teach you how to make it write shit you actually care about.
→ https://open.substack.com/pub/nickquick
I'll teach you how to make it write shit you actually care about.
→ https://open.substack.com/pub/nickquick
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Your voice matters more than ever.
AI is flooding the internet with generic content. The creators who win are the ones who learn to collaborate without losing what makes them them.
That's what I write about. Subscribe if you're building something that sounds like you →...
AI is flooding the internet with generic content. The creators who win are the ones who learn to collaborate without losing what makes them them.
That's what I write about. Subscribe if you're building something that sounds like you →...
Want your AI to truly capture your voice?
Feed it examples of writing you'd NEVER produce.
The contrast creates sharper boundaries than perfect examples ever could.
Feed it examples of writing you'd NEVER produce.
The contrast creates sharper boundaries than perfect examples ever could.
January 1, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Want your AI to truly capture your voice?
Feed it examples of writing you'd NEVER produce.
The contrast creates sharper boundaries than perfect examples ever could.
Feed it examples of writing you'd NEVER produce.
The contrast creates sharper boundaries than perfect examples ever could.
You think feeding your AI perfectly polished prose is the key to cloning your voice? Wrong.
Dead wrong.
Train it on your mistakes, your drafts, your 3AM notes-to-self. That's where your authentic voice lives.
Dead wrong.
Train it on your mistakes, your drafts, your 3AM notes-to-self. That's where your authentic voice lives.
January 1, 2026 at 6:20 PM
You think feeding your AI perfectly polished prose is the key to cloning your voice? Wrong.
Dead wrong.
Train it on your mistakes, your drafts, your 3AM notes-to-self. That's where your authentic voice lives.
Dead wrong.
Train it on your mistakes, your drafts, your 3AM notes-to-self. That's where your authentic voice lives.
In an AI-saturated future, authentic strangeness will be the only thing that makes content stand out.
Your weirdness isn't a liability—it's your greatest asset.
Your weirdness isn't a liability—it's your greatest asset.
January 1, 2026 at 3:06 PM
In an AI-saturated future, authentic strangeness will be the only thing that makes content stand out.
Your weirdness isn't a liability—it's your greatest asset.
Your weirdness isn't a liability—it's your greatest asset.
I knew my AI training was working when it wrote about underwater tax preparation that made zero logical sense but sounded EXACTLY like me after too much caffeine.
January 1, 2026 at 1:31 PM
I knew my AI training was working when it wrote about underwater tax preparation that made zero logical sense but sounded EXACTLY like me after too much caffeine.
Readers don't connect with your polished thoughts—they connect with your cognitive style.
Train AI on how you think, not just what you say.
Train AI on how you think, not just what you say.
January 1, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Readers don't connect with your polished thoughts—they connect with your cognitive style.
Train AI on how you think, not just what you say.
Train AI on how you think, not just what you say.
AI doesn't just need your style guide. It needs your mental chaos—the tangents, half-baked metaphors, and strange connections you filter out before hitting "publish."
December 31, 2025 at 11:55 PM
AI doesn't just need your style guide. It needs your mental chaos—the tangents, half-baked metaphors, and strange connections you filter out before hitting "publish."
The absurd prompt test: "Write a breakup letter to gravity."
If your response makes you cringe with its weirdness, you've just created perfect AI training data.
If your response makes you cringe with its weirdness, you've just created perfect AI training data.
December 31, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The absurd prompt test: "Write a breakup letter to gravity."
If your response makes you cringe with its weirdness, you've just created perfect AI training data.
If your response makes you cringe with its weirdness, you've just created perfect AI training data.
Want AI to write like you?
Stop giving it your LinkedIn articles. Give it the chaotic thoughts you'd never publish—they contain your actual cognitive fingerprints.
#AIWriting
Stop giving it your LinkedIn articles. Give it the chaotic thoughts you'd never publish—they contain your actual cognitive fingerprints.
#AIWriting
December 31, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Want AI to write like you?
Stop giving it your LinkedIn articles. Give it the chaotic thoughts you'd never publish—they contain your actual cognitive fingerprints.
#AIWriting
Stop giving it your LinkedIn articles. Give it the chaotic thoughts you'd never publish—they contain your actual cognitive fingerprints.
#AIWriting
Your authentic writing voice isn't hiding in your polished work—it's in those 2am texts explaining why dolphins might secretly run the world economy.
That's the raw material AI needs to truly sound like you.
#AIWriting
That's the raw material AI needs to truly sound like you.
#AIWriting
December 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Your authentic writing voice isn't hiding in your polished work—it's in those 2am texts explaining why dolphins might secretly run the world economy.
That's the raw material AI needs to truly sound like you.
#AIWriting
That's the raw material AI needs to truly sound like you.
#AIWriting
1/7
Your AI writing assistant sounds robotic because you're feeding it your most boring self.
Your AI writing assistant sounds robotic because you're feeding it your most boring self.
December 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
1/7
Your AI writing assistant sounds robotic because you're feeding it your most boring self.
Your AI writing assistant sounds robotic because you're feeding it your most boring self.
1/8
I spent months trying to get AI to write like me.
The results were always... fine.
Technically correct but spiritually vacant—like a robot wearing my clothes.
I spent months trying to get AI to write like me.
The results were always... fine.
Technically correct but spiritually vacant—like a robot wearing my clothes.
December 31, 2025 at 11:41 AM
1/8
I spent months trying to get AI to write like me.
The results were always... fine.
Technically correct but spiritually vacant—like a robot wearing my clothes.
I spent months trying to get AI to write like me.
The results were always... fine.
Technically correct but spiritually vacant—like a robot wearing my clothes.
1/6
Confession: I accidentally discovered the Shadow Self Technique after staying up 36 hours creating a workshop presentation and completely losing my filter.
Confession: I accidentally discovered the Shadow Self Technique after staying up 36 hours creating a workshop presentation and completely losing my filter.
December 31, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Confession: I accidentally discovered the Shadow Self Technique after staying up 36 hours creating a workshop presentation and completely losing my filter.
Confession: I accidentally discovered the Shadow Self Technique after staying up 36 hours creating a workshop presentation and completely losing my filter.
What makes your content different?
If you can't answer that immediately, why would anyone check it out?
Unique value, distillation, or perspective.
Pick one.
If you can't answer that immediately, why would anyone check it out?
Unique value, distillation, or perspective.
Pick one.
December 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
What makes your content different?
If you can't answer that immediately, why would anyone check it out?
Unique value, distillation, or perspective.
Pick one.
If you can't answer that immediately, why would anyone check it out?
Unique value, distillation, or perspective.
Pick one.
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Content creation without deep work is like trying to fill a bathtub with the drain open.
You'll exhaust yourself without meaningful results.
Content creation without deep work is like trying to fill a bathtub with the drain open.
You'll exhaust yourself without meaningful results.
December 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Content creation without deep work is like trying to fill a bathtub with the drain open.
You'll exhaust yourself without meaningful results.
Content creation without deep work is like trying to fill a bathtub with the drain open.
You'll exhaust yourself without meaningful results.
Shallow work is like treading water—lots of motion but you stay in place.
Deep work is actually swimming somewhere.
Never skip a day of forward movement.
Deep work is actually swimming somewhere.
Never skip a day of forward movement.
December 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Shallow work is like treading water—lots of motion but you stay in place.
Deep work is actually swimming somewhere.
Never skip a day of forward movement.
Deep work is actually swimming somewhere.
Never skip a day of forward movement.
Your phone is essentially a slot machine designed by engineers to maximize interruptions.
Put that thing in another room during deep work sessions.
Put that thing in another room during deep work sessions.
December 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Your phone is essentially a slot machine designed by engineers to maximize interruptions.
Put that thing in another room during deep work sessions.
Put that thing in another room during deep work sessions.
My hard rule: The first two hours of my workday belong to my most important project.
Before email, before Slack, before the world can intervene.
Before email, before Slack, before the world can intervene.
December 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
My hard rule: The first two hours of my workday belong to my most important project.
Before email, before Slack, before the world can intervene.
Before email, before Slack, before the world can intervene.
Busy ≠ productive.
Answering emails all day is like filling your diet with candy—temporarily satisfying but ultimately empty.
Answering emails all day is like filling your diet with candy—temporarily satisfying but ultimately empty.
December 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Busy ≠ productive.
Answering emails all day is like filling your diet with candy—temporarily satisfying but ultimately empty.
Answering emails all day is like filling your diet with candy—temporarily satisfying but ultimately empty.
That rush when you finish a complex problem after two hours of focused work?
That's your brain telling you what real productivity feels like.
That's your brain telling you what real productivity feels like.
December 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
That rush when you finish a complex problem after two hours of focused work?
That's your brain telling you what real productivity feels like.
That's your brain telling you what real productivity feels like.
Shallow tasks expand to fill all available time—unless you ruthlessly carve out space for what actually matters.
Never go a day without some deep work.
Never go a day without some deep work.
December 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Shallow tasks expand to fill all available time—unless you ruthlessly carve out space for what actually matters.
Never go a day without some deep work.
Never go a day without some deep work.
Your calendar doesn't lie.
If you can't point to when you're doing deep work, you're not doing it. Most "productivity" is just organized wheel-spinning.
If you can't point to when you're doing deep work, you're not doing it. Most "productivity" is just organized wheel-spinning.
December 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Your calendar doesn't lie.
If you can't point to when you're doing deep work, you're not doing it. Most "productivity" is just organized wheel-spinning.
If you can't point to when you're doing deep work, you're not doing it. Most "productivity" is just organized wheel-spinning.
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Let's talk about the real start.
Not the launch party, the actual grind.
Building an audience takes forever.
Let's talk about the real start.
Not the launch party, the actual grind.
Building an audience takes forever.
December 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Let's talk about the real start.
Not the launch party, the actual grind.
Building an audience takes forever.
Let's talk about the real start.
Not the launch party, the actual grind.
Building an audience takes forever.
Patience isn't a virtue in this game; it's the f***ing entry fee.
December 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Patience isn't a virtue in this game; it's the f***ing entry fee.
Feeling like your work disappears into the ether?
You're not alone.
It mostly does... at first.
You're not alone.
It mostly does... at first.
December 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Feeling like your work disappears into the ether?
You're not alone.
It mostly does... at first.
You're not alone.
It mostly does... at first.
Anyone telling you audience building is fast & easy is selling something.
Probably a course on how to sell courses.
Probably a course on how to sell courses.
December 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Anyone telling you audience building is fast & easy is selling something.
Probably a course on how to sell courses.
Probably a course on how to sell courses.