The minute you try to automate relationships, you’ve already lost.
AI is great for speeding up the little stuff. Ideation. Drafting. Data entry. But if it makes us cut corners on connection, we’re missing the point.
Simon Sinek put it this way in Leaders Eat Last:
“Trust is not formed through a screen, it is formed across a table. No technology yet can replace that.”
Most people are over-optimizing communication right now, but they’re neglecting connection. The ones who lean into connection are the ones who will actually win.