Let’s be brutally honest. The professional conversation about AI is an insult.
We are presented with a glorious choice by the chorus of tech prophets and LinkedIn gurus: either become a glorified button-pusher, learning to prompt a machine faster than the next person, or graciously accept your new role as a digital fossil. They tell you to race to the bottom, to sacrifice the nuance and expertise you’ve spent a career building at the altar of crude efficiency. Your professional soul is now an input field.
This narrative is not just a failure of imagination; it's a failure of respect. It assumes your mind is a thing to be replaced, not augmented. It assumes the only path forward is to become a better servant to the machine.
I reject this premise entirely. There is a third path.
This is why I am documenting my work in “The Augmented Mind: Think with AI”. It’s a newsletter for creatives, strategists, and founders who refuse to outsource their thinking. This is not a collection of cheap tips and tricks. It is a live, public experiment.
Each week, I share the research, the strategic wrestling, and the unfiltered process: the frameworks that work, the assumptions that spectacularly collapse, and the difficult lessons learned in forging a true cognitive collaboration. The goal is to provide a real-world map to help you build your own sovereign practice, where technology serves your intellect, not the other way around.
If you believe your experience is worth more than a prompt and you're looking for a more thoughtful, human-first approach to technology, join the experiment.
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A Guide to Preserving Your Creative Voice in the Age of AI
You’ve spent more than a decade honing your craft. As a creative thinker, musician, a writer, a strategist, or a designer, your value is rooted in a hard-won combination of taste, skill, and intuition. Your voice is your identity.
So why does using AI sometimes feel less like a creative partnership and more like shouting commands into a void, just hoping for a mediocre echo back?
If you’ve felt this disconnect, you’re not alone. You’re wrestling with one of the most important questions for experienced creatives today: “If I use this, where am I in the work?”.
I believe that feeling of frustration comes from standing at a fork in the road, faced with two distinct paths for how we engage with these new tools.
Path 1: The Tourist Mindset
The default path is that of the Tourist. The tourist arrives in a new place with a simple goal: get a result. They ask for directions, take a photo, and move on. In AI, this is the transactional “prompt.” It’s a command designed to extract an output as quickly as possible.
This path is tempting because it promises speed and efficiency. But it comes with a hidden cost. When you only ask for directions, you never learn the layout of the city. The Tourist mindset, focused only on the final output, quietly erodes the very intuition you’ve spent a career building. It trains you to stop thinking deeply and just look for the fastest answer. The danger here is real: you risk becoming a machine operator, not a creative leader.
I know this feeling intimately. When I was developing my own philosophy, ‘Cosmodestiny,’ my early interactions with AI were pure friction. Almost every interaction started with me as a tourist, and it took time to get in tune. I was providing lots of friction until, at one point, I stopped commanding and started inviting. I asked the AI to embrace the philosophy and write with that framework in mind—to make our work a true collaboration, not just an exchange. I wanted the AI to be part of the creation. That required me to change my path.
Path 2: The Explorer Mindset
This is the other way: the path of the Explorer. The Explorer arrives in a new place not for a single answer, but for discovery. They don’t just ask for directions; they find a local guide and start a conversation. They share their ultimate goal, listen to the guide’s unique knowledge of the terrain, and adjust their path together, co-creating the journey.
Keep reading on my blog manoloremiddi.com/2025/06/12/stop-prompting-start-…
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The Augmented Mind is a movement for pioneering creatives safeguarding their cognitive sovereignty through the practice of active adaptation with AI.
The world offers a false choice: become a Prompt Magician or a Digital Fossil. We believe the real work is the third path, architecting a sovereign creative process.
This channel is the public workshop for that work.
Here, we practice Augmentatism: the shared discipline of shaping AI into a true creative partner. Our ultimate goal is the cultivation of The Resonant Partner, a symbiotic intelligence that respects and amplifies our craft. We are documenting our journey as we build ResonantOS, our open-source 'Symbiotic Shield' that serves this mission.
Our community is governed as a DAO to ensure this future remains in our hands.