The stupidity filter

Claude and ChatGPT changed how I think.

I now vet ideas there first for any upfront stupidity.

That’s a new step in my thinking process. I’ve essentially added a rubber duck that talks back. It probably changes not just what ideas I present to people, but how I formulate ideas in the first place.

Some of the best insights come from someone saying something half-baked and another person going “wait, that’s actually interesting if we think about it this way…”

But if you’ve already filtered out the half-baked idea through AI, those generative moments never happen.

You get more polished inputs. But you lose those weird random leaps that lead somewhere unexpected.

The trick is knowing when to use the filter and when to let the half-baked ideas fly.