Episode 12: What Do YOU Want to Write About?

What this episode is about

WHY gives your writing fuel. HOW gives it a voice. WHAT is where most people lose the thread, chasing trends and algorithms instead of their own curiosity. My own interests - mapping human writing voices, the history of innovation, combinatorial creativity, scoliosis research - don't share one clean underlying question. I don't think they need to.

In this episode

The difference between stated preferences and revealed preferences, and why "my audience wants this" is a claim worth interrogating. My own scaling era, where I followed other people's formulas and ended up making work I didn't recognize. Why a book works like a science experiment - a question, an exploration, a conclusion that often just produces better questions. How my voice-intelligence system came out of decades of ghostwriting colliding with a master's program in measurement and psychometrics.

HumanPrint homework

Build a curiosity map. Blank page, every subject you return to voluntarily, nothing crossed off for being too small or strange. Draw the connections. Pick one that surprises you and write a page about it without touching Gen AI. Only then bring Gen AI in for structural supplementation and then decide for yourself what actually belongs.