Nathan Barry asked for the mission of London Writers' Salon. Matt Trinetti explains why he thinks a writing practice matters more now, as AI takes over more mental work.
This is really important.
We'll put vision on here too as well. You need to put numbers to it to be able to rally everyone together. What is the mission for your organization? It's
kind of lofty. Yeah. But we want to help every individual develop and sustain a writing practice. And why a writing practice is that writing is one of the most easily accessible tools into things like reflection through journaling, contemplation, self-awareness, communication, imagination, influence. And it's, again, one of the most accessible tools. And we're at this really interesting nexus point with humanity, I feel, that it might be the last thing we haven't yet offloaded to technology. In the same way, we've offloaded our navigational abilities to Google Maps and our mobile abilities to cars and other things.
We don't memorize phone numbers anymore. It's not a thing.
And it's a practice for deep thinking. And you know, as a writer, like what that can do both personally, but also for a business, but it's not just about that. So, yeah, we're at this interesting nexus point of humanity. And we want, we've been fortunate to create a space of belonging and creating…
Yeah, I love that, especially because now I'm seeing so many people. Who used AI to accelerate their output or that sort of thing, which is great. I'm thrilled that they did that and are accomplishing so much more. It's when it feels like, oh, you used AI, you outsourced your thinking. Right. And…