Daily Post #2900 • November 16 2025 • Craft

The idea muscle

People have always feared blank pages.

It’s one of the reasons people love AI so much.

It protects them from blank pages, having no ideas, having to start from nothing.

Yet those blank pages are an essential part of being great at what you do.

I stare at blank pages every day. Including this daily blog practice.

If I stay with blank pages, ideas are infinite.

If I phone it into AI, the idea muscle will atrophy.

Everyone is letting their idea muscles atrophy.

Idea muscles are becoming rarer.

Maybe it’s worth sticking with the fear, and holding onto yours.

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