I always consider myself as a thinker.  I am a consultant, a researcher, and a teacher. Those are my formal job titles.  However, I tell myself silently that my job is actually thinking. A consultant, for examples, has a lot of definitions. One of them is providing solutions, which is obtained through the process of thinking. The same can be said about research and teaching. Now, or course, we need to explain what exactly I mean by thinking.  Does it mean letting a certain process going inside my head? Well, yes, part of it. One way of doing the thinking is by letting the process going inside my head. I can do it while closing my eyes, or while walking around my house, or while sitting in a cafe.  But thinking could be much larger than that. Although it always include the process of thinking that goes inside your head. Otherwise it is not thinking it is  delegating. Well, nothing wrong with delegating, in fact we need delegating to get the whole results. But the core of my products is the result of my own thinking just because it defines my identity. That said, I would accept that other proffesionals might be done using all available tools without much thinking. Of course, no job is possible without human thinking,even jobs done by robots. But in my case, my own thinking is the core of my job.

The core of my job is my own thinking process. I do use many assistants: AI, computers, books, internet, etc. All those assistants are important but they form a system where I am the sole architect, the thinker that direct everything.

I imagine all those assistants as “folders”.  I create a setup to organize the folders. This setup is more than just a mere organizational tool.  It reflects a way of thinking. The objective is to separate my original thinking ability and thinking delegation to AI. I want to preserve my own thinking ability, and to prevent brain rot as a consequences of using ai in wrong ways.  Keep in mind that traditional libraries are a collection of materials created by other people, and I need them because we all are dwarfs standing in the shoulder of a giant. We can view the materials produced by AI in that sense, with a caveat that these materials are produced under my specific directions. So in a sense, there is some intellectual works in it.