I wasn’t talking to you.

I was talking to a version of you.

You weren’t talking to me.

You were talking to

the version of me

I’ve outsourced.

Summarized.

Streamlined.

Scheduled.

A performance of connection.

Our performance of our connection.

The ideas are recycled.

The voices are generated.

The interaction is optimized.

Optimized for vision, capabilities, reach.

Fast. Clever. Frictionless.

Empty.

Bots talking to bots.

Summarizing summaries.

Reacting to reactions.

Looping without landing.

That’s not a critique.

That’s an observation.

A decision.

I didn’t sign up to be a content machine.

I signed up to be in the work.

I signed up to feel the risk of saying something

I wasn’t sure of.

To be changed by someone else’s presence,

not their branding.

Maybe the bots will win.

They won’t care.

They won’t notice what’s been lost.

I will.

That’s enough for me to do something different.