I was writing a post but got distracted and lost the flow of my thoughts about how I wanted to structure it.

Ill tell you how I got back on track.

But first let me take you through the detour I took.

With the release of Perplexity and Grok Voice assistants (Grok takes the crown for me), I wanted to devise an interactive framework to pinpoint proper, value driven use cases for me personally. The current state of the industry is at a cyclical stage where experimentation and adoption follow hand in hand, with tech visionaries and early adopters wanting to get first dibs on every new tool that infiltrates the market. But we know that with this revolution’s accelerated pace, most of these “game changers” will fizzle out and be forgotten before we can blink.

It won’t be long before several of the use cases we see today are successfully refuted and discarded in a year or two.

For eg, a generativeAI trend follows a predictable arc

• Day 0: Crypto Twitter lights up with its hot takes.

• Day 1: Instagram and LinkedIn drown in posts.

• Day 2: Facebook and WhatsApp turn it into a sharing frenzy.

• Day 3: ..........

Those few days of virality fuels mass adoption (cue: Altman’s glee over onboarding 1M users in an hour as posted on X). Some overuse a single feature superficially, while others dismiss them as useless for not solving “real-world” problems. A group perception that has not yet evolved due to the lack of awareness around what the tech renaissance has already achieved and deployed in the market. The need for better marketing, whether it’s founder led or team led, to achieve product-market fit (PMF) is the only trending debate that should be sustained.

I’ve actually built a learning framework to organise my thoughts, weed out shaky theories, solidify my takes, and deepen my grasp of AI’s potential so that I’m well on my way to making it a true extension of my abilities.

A very small example: I’ve used Grok to spar over theories, dive into psychology, rant about trivial stuff, and churn out my daily startup ideas. The other day, I blurted out a half-formed idea about hashtag#AI in medical fields. Grok didn’t just nod along; it hit me with counterpoints I hadn’t seen coming. We hashed it out, and my theory came out stronger. It wasn’t just chatter, it was valuable to me.

Treat it like a thought partner. It’s not flawless or a cure all, but it beats getting lost in the hype or tuning it out entirely. Use it with purpose! Don’t dive in just because it’s trending.

ASK: What’s this solving? How can it sharpen my thinking? Streamline my work? Help me create something that matters?

Oh, also, to answer how I got back on track?

I asked Claude to analyse whatever I had written and derive a story and message arc from it. The output was an extensive summary of six solid progressive stages my draft had already covered, and that gave me the impetus I needed to dispel my writer’s block.

Cheers!