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# Bob Berry's Bulletin

For our country, finding new insights on how we got here and what's next. Researching and reporting on the impact of A.I. on creators, the creator economy, and human-machine relationships 

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## Posts

- [Redefining the Publish Paradigm](https://bob-berry.com/__trashed-3/) - I love language, words, sentences and how those elemental jewels arrive together to create stories, narratives, coherent streams of meaning. I love the human longing for, propensity toward, mastery of crafting infinite variations of these worlds. I love that I've been blessed with the writerly fascination with finding that coherence in everything, in forever wondering
- [How to compete with the most advanced technology in the history of civilization](https://bob-berry.com/how-to-compete-with-the-most-advanced-technology-in-the-history-of-civilization/) - As I build a new venture focused observing, experiencing, analyzing, and reporting on the impact of A.I. on the entire Creator culture and economy, I wonder … What to do with a technological phenomenon, when considering how and working on the mechanics of launching a business focused on that phenomenon, when that technology now or
- [On the Age, Size, and Expressions of Aspens](https://bob-berry.com/on-the-age-size-and-expressions-of-aspens/) - Most of our campsite on the Grand Mesa in Western Colorado is surrounded by young aspen trees, 5 to 10 feet tall. Here in late September, their dancing leaves present every variety of gold: pure, stunning, solid gold that pops in the golden sunlight, all gradations of green-gold, including that gentle green of leaves with
- [Of all the illusions in all the minds in all humanity, you stumbled into this one](https://bob-berry.com/of-all-the-illusions-in-all-the-minds-in-all-humanity-you-stumbled-into-this-one/) - I’ve researched consciousness and the human experience for the last 3 decades. I’m convinced: Among the thoughts that crowd the mind, few matter. Here are 9 proofs that we’re clueless: Visible light, our primary source of information about our shared reality, is only 0.0035% of the electromagnetic spectrum. What are we missing? Confirmation bias ensures
- [As a creator in self-help, how do you get your content read and applied?](https://bob-berry.com/as-a-creator-in-self-help-how-do-you-get-your-content-read-and-applied/) - You only have about 1.3 seconds for these five steps So, you write content to help others. You’re focused on human development, self reflection, trauma recovery, spiritual enlightenment, or many other compassionate categories of subject matter — but getting readers to engage is a constant challenge and often a disappointment. Understanding the reader’s cognitive flow
- [Master an online audience: Top Ten Ways for Creators](https://bob-berry.com/top-ten-ways-for-creators-to-find-and-master-an-online-audience/) - As the Kinks said in the 1972 hit, Celluloid Heroes, “Everybody's a dreamer, everybody's a star” - to get beyond the dream, we need to master an online audience
- [The hype and inauthenticity of online business has become exhausting in its tedium](https://bob-berry.com/the-hype-and-inauthenticity-of-online-business-has-become-exhausting-in-its-tedium/) - Perhaps you’ve been at this online business game long enough that you’re no longer interested in or motivated by all the tired models of how to build a business and how to create funnels and run social media and launch content marketing campaigns. Perhaps, you’re also totally disillusioned with the templates, formulas, and all the
- [The single undeniable common denominator and equalizer for all Creators: we all create experiences ](https://bob-berry.com/the-single-undeniable-common-denominator-and-equalizer-for-all-creators-we-all-create-experiences/) - Creators come together! You all share in the same work: creating experiences. Those who create digital art, music, fiction, and poetry are creating experiences of beauty, excellence, appreciation, and reminders that in this messy, chaotic world, we can find and celebrate goodness. That is key to survival. Those who create learning, methods, skill systems, how-to‘s,
- [Researchers, Consider your Craft as a Movie Production — With One Critical Twist](https://bob-berry.com/researchers-consider-your-craft-as-a-movie-production-with-one-critical-twist/) - As business researchers, we seek knowledge and insight necessary to drive customer outcomes and our own success. It’s what I call ‘requisite hidden knowledge’. Requisite because the insights are required to realize success. Hidden because those insights are invisible until we go vigorously, actively uncover them. And then apply them. The most revealing and rich
- [Virginia Woolf was only partially right: get a room, yes — and you’ll need many spaces ](https://bob-berry.com/virginia-woolf-was-only-partially-right-get-a-room-yes-and-find-many-other-spaces/) - Photo by Nathan Van Egmond on Unsplash Virginia Woolf wrote in 1929 about A Room of One’s Own and spoke to writers through the ages. She needed that physical space to be the creator she was, the writer she strived to be, and she addressed other spaces she required in her time and in her age. In the early 20th
- [Three brutal lessons on your path to digital stardom](https://bob-berry.com/three-brutal-lessons-on-your-path-to-digital-stardom/) - The internet is crowded with gurus and programs selling digital success. But beware - they may divert you from your path to digital stardom.
- [Optical Illusions of the Evening Mountains Suggest Crossing Horizons in the Mind](https://bob-berry.com/optical-illusions-of-the-evening-mountains-suggest-crossing-horizons-in-the-mind/) - Along the Colorado front range, the Rockies rise abruptly from the treeless and flat High Plains. The mountains provide a forever-reference to the west, a tall and jagged and solid compass viewed from anywhere. As the sun sets in that direction, and after sundown, as evening fades close to darkness but when the western sky
- [14 not-so-common Creator mistakes to avoid - any one of them will sink you](https://bob-berry.com/14-not-so-common-creator-mistakes-to-avoid-any-one-of-them-will-sink-you/) - These are the common Creator mistakes to avoid, learned from three decades in writing online, SEO, digital marketing, user experience
- [An innovative approach for creators' biggest challenges in the midst of a down economy and the explosion of A.I.](https://bob-berry.com/an-innovative-approach-for-creators-to-overcome-their-biggest-challenges-in-the-midst-of-a-down-economy-and-the-explosion-of-a-i/) - Creativity, life, & the creator economy are out of the frying pan of COVID into the fire of A.I. We need to dig deeper to address creators' biggest challenges.
- [The necessity of analog experience in an increasingly digital world](https://bob-berry.com/the-necessity-of-analog-experience-in-an-increasingly-digital-world/) - Covid drove us contactless to rely on our digital devices. Virtual solutions perform a collective miracle but remind us of the necessity of analog experience.
- [Creators can outsmart ChatGPT and rise above the explosion of artificial intelligence](https://bob-berry.com/how-creators-can-outsmart-chatgpt-and-rise-above-the-explosion-of-artificial-intelligence/) - New AI platforms are causing shockwaves in the creator economy & creators’ lives. But creators can outsmart ChatGPT with a powerful, authentic, human advantage
- [Dear Writers, Artists, and all Creators and Creatives: you’re not in charge, despite what you think](https://bob-berry.com/dear-writers-artists-and-all-creators-and-creatives-youre-not-in-charge-despite-what-you-think/) - Art is a mystical process. Writing or any creative act is a spiritual process. Every capacity you can bring to bear on the authoring and originates beyond you.
- [Overcoming a Legacy of Smallness to Be With the Universe in Ecstatic Motion](https://bob-berry.com/overcoming-a-legacy-of-smallness-to-be-with-the-universe-in-ecstatic-motion/) - In the last year plus, I’ve found my voice and the intrinsic motivation to write, and constantly. I’ve been a writer, off and on, here and there, now and then, through most of my life. But the drive always wavered, my heart wasn’t always in it. That, most beautifully, is no longer a problem. I
- [The Critical Mindset that most aspiring UXRs miss when trying to break into UX — and how to create it](https://bob-berry.com/the-critical-mindset-that-most-aspiring-uxrs-miss-when-trying-to-break-into-ux-and-how-to-create-it/) - I’m a UXR, a user experience researcher. My work includes Google, Facebook, Amazon, HP, Apple, Twitter, FedEx, GE, and many many other top companies. I get to geek out on the best new tech, software, tools, products, and solutions invented by the best brands. I love this craft! I have 35 years experience in UX,
- [What's a lifetime of toil compared to A.I. music created in seconds?](https://bob-berry.com/whats-a-lifetime-of-toil-compared-to-a-i-music-created-in-seconds/) - Music provides the background for my life. I write to music. I drive to music. I fall asleep to music. I meditate to music. As a child, I bought cassettes and later, when they came on the scene, CDs by the box full of my favorite artists. When illegal digital music emerged, I got online
- [Homeless on my 12th birthday, Rand McNally showed me wilderness](https://bob-berry.com/homeless-on-my-12th-birthday-rand-mcnally-introduced-me-to-wilderness/) - Atlases and their maps are the most truthful books. They offer endless untold stories and mysteries for a boy and an old man. Rand McNally showed me wilderness.
- [Will we ever have great writers again?](https://bob-berry.com/will-we-ever-have-great-writers-again/) - Every age has its great writers – and historians, poets, novelists, scientists, mystics, journalists, essayists, playwrights, naturalists, technologists, and business authors. But with AI making teachers, authors, artists, and reporters obsolete, will we ever have great writers again? Or will we look back on the early 21st century with nostalgia and longing, as we wonder
- [What is my A.I. responsibility?](https://bob-berry.com/what-is-my-a-i-responsibility/) - How much of my knowledge of this massive artificial intelligence shock should I share? As all the power, risks, and implications of the rapidly emerging AI continue to accelerate and I continue to learn more, what is my responsibility? A friend wonders what is happening. I’ve been studying and researching, I get it, but I’ve
- [What winds blow in you to inspire compelling experience for your audience?](https://bob-berry.com/what-winds-blow-through-you-that-inform-and-inspire-a-compelling-experience-for-your-audience/) - I’m obsessed with compelling experience. My shtick in life is to maximize experience, for others, and for myself, to raise the experience tide for all online.
- [In a world gone digital, virtual, and artificial — my quest for authentic analog experience off the grid](https://bob-berry.com/in-a-world-gone-digital-virtual-and-artificial-my-quest-for-authentic-analog-experience-off-the-grid/) - Our lives are consumed by virtual experiences. The digital, simulated, streamed, and recorded consume our attention. We need authentic analog experience.
- [Letting A.I. into the wild accelerates and worsens every other A.I. risk](https://bob-berry.com/letting-a-i-into-the-wild-accelerates-and-worsens-every-other-a-i-risk/) - [Author’s note: I research and write about the impact of AI on the human condition and civilization at large. My specific focus is our rapidly evolving experience of this new technology, the new man-machine interchange, and the altered human-computer relationship. The following is representative of my cautious and sometimes alarming perspective on the risks of
- [Rethinking the rest of my days: AI's impact on life expectancy and financial stability](https://bob-berry.com/rethinking-the-rest-of-my-days-ais-impact-on-life-expectancy-and-financial-stability/) - [Author’s note: the following was researched with the help of various LLMs, but the content was written by me.] When I retired in October 2022, my wife and I put considerable thought and planning into guessing our life expectancy, and therefore our estate, investments, and finances to ensure that we could afford to live comfortably
- [How to feel the earth turning beneath you and find deep appreciation for Earth, our home](https://bob-berry.com/how-to-feel-the-earth-turning-beneath-you-and-find-deeper-appreciation-for-your-home/) - When astronauts go to space and see for the first time that view of their planet suspended in the void, they realize a new and deep appreciation for Earth
- [The Ballad of Woody, the Stealth Bong](https://bob-berry.com/the-ballad-of-woody-the-bamboo-bong/) - When Colorado became the first state to legalize pot in 2016, I was proud! I wanted to beam myself back to 1975, to tell the 17-year-old me growing up in Denver and buying and using grass illegally — and using a lot of it — that my fair state would eventually be the first in the union to do
- [A.I. regulation and control is a fallacy, here’s why](https://bob-berry.com/a-i-regulation-and-control-is-a-fallacy-heres-why/) - My friend, who only has a passing knowledge of AI and its many recent developments, forwarded me an article about one of the big AI platforms promoting government regulation. My friend is hopeful. I’ve shared only a few of the many immediate and long-term existential risks from the horde of new AI technologies and platforms
- [So far, the impact of UX on civilization has been child’s play — with AI, that’s about to change](https://bob-berry.com/so-far-the-impact-of-ux-on-civilization-has-been-childs-play-with-ai-thats-about-to-change/) - I’ve been posing this problem in the UX community, and I would love comments, perspectives, opinions, etc: Mobile devices, content platforms, and social media dominate our lives. The mega-corporate owners of vast mountains of our personal data and the ever-learning algorithms to abuse that data for their own profit motives ensure our attention is enslaved
- [AI will achieve the broadest impact of any technology in human history](https://bob-berry.com/ai-will-achieve-the-broadest-impact-of-any-technology-in-human-history/) - All human endeavors have always had unique risks, benefits, expressions, uses, and methods. They have mostly been local and specific to their own areas of expertise and skill. Rarely did the risks or benefits crossover to other domains. But artificial intelligence is delivering advances in virtually every human undertaking and has already achieved a degree
- [How my writing demons point the way forward](https://bob-berry.com/how-my-writing-demons-point-the-way-forward/) - I write constantly. My writing demons help. Usually, I write with my expensive fountain pen collection, occasionally at a keyboard on my Mac or iPad.
- [The Secrets and Mysteries of AI Interpretability](https://bob-berry.com/the-secrets-and-mysteries-of-ai-interpretability/) - Reading various papers, for example one by Dario Amodei of Anthropic, the maker of the Claude models, they emphasize the importance of a concept called “interpretability”. This is understanding how an LLM or any AI system thinks, how it interprets requests and constructs outputs – and basically we don't understand it all. Dario Amodei on

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- [About who am I, what is this:](https://bob-berry.com/about/) - Find out through investigating, innovating, experimenting, interviewing, and broad secondary research if AI can be a net positive for writers, the writing professions, and Creatives in general. Investigate the state of the writing professions and the impact of AI. How has AI changed human creativity and art, both how we create it and how we
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