Self-Maintenance
Human-AI RelationshipProvisional
Deliberate practices to prevent skill atrophy from AI dependency, rereading, re-learning, staying sharp independent of tools
Evidence
“I will never let that dumbing down of self that everybody says the risk of AI is. I'll never let that happen because of the way that I maintain myself.”
“One is it makes me lazy. So I need to intentionally say, "No, I'm going to keep thinking for myself." I need to, again, similar to the person that was learning, retain the critical thinking. Otherwise it gets lost because it's a muscle. So we need to keep practicing and using it. And this is one thing I'm really keen on passing to the more junior colleagues. It's like, you cannot skip that. Forget about that, because otherwise you will be a solo lead really soon and you cannot delegate that critical thinking and problem solving to the machine.”
“I unplug on the weekends. I go down in the art studio. I paint my brains out all weekend. I go in the garden.”
“I unplug. I leave my phone in the house. I play with my dogs. Like I purposefully unplug.”
Sessions
The Reluctant Early Adopter
P1 - Principal UX Designer, Insuretech · Software · Apr 14, 2026
The Tunnel Vision Experiment
P7 - Principal Design Researcher, Software Consulting · Software · Apr 16, 2026
The Suitcase and the Plan B
P9 - UX Researcher and AI Specialist, Independent · Independent Consultant · Apr 17, 2026