Nick Quick
@nickquick.bsky.social
I speak AI.
I'll teach you how to make it write shit you actually care about.
→ https://drafts.cowritewithAI.com
I'll teach you how to make it write shit you actually care about.
→ https://drafts.cowritewithAI.com
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Nick Quick
@nickquick.bsky.social
· Sep 30
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1/ Your Spotify playlists say more about your writing style than your writing samples do.
The rhythms you consume shape the rhythms you produce – often unconsciously ⤵️
The rhythms you consume shape the rhythms you produce – often unconsciously ⤵️
November 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
1/ Your Spotify playlists say more about your writing style than your writing samples do.
The rhythms you consume shape the rhythms you produce – often unconsciously ⤵️
The rhythms you consume shape the rhythms you produce – often unconsciously ⤵️
Your mistakes, self-corrections, and weird analogies that almost work—that's where the gold is for AI training.
Polish hides what makes your writing uniquely yours.
Polish hides what makes your writing uniquely yours.
November 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Your mistakes, self-corrections, and weird analogies that almost work—that's where the gold is for AI training.
Polish hides what makes your writing uniquely yours.
Polish hides what makes your writing uniquely yours.
An AI trained only on perfection can't handle raw or exploratory tasks.
Feed it your drafts and it becomes adaptable, resilient... more human.
Feed it your drafts and it becomes adaptable, resilient... more human.
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
An AI trained only on perfection can't handle raw or exploratory tasks.
Feed it your drafts and it becomes adaptable, resilient... more human.
Feed it your drafts and it becomes adaptable, resilient... more human.
Perfect is boring.
Perfect is forgettable.
But messy?
Messy is where the magic happens.
This applies to both humans and the AIs we're training.
Perfect is forgettable.
But messy?
Messy is where the magic happens.
This applies to both humans and the AIs we're training.
November 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Perfect is boring.
Perfect is forgettable.
But messy?
Messy is where the magic happens.
This applies to both humans and the AIs we're training.
Perfect is forgettable.
But messy?
Messy is where the magic happens.
This applies to both humans and the AIs we're training.
The best AI mirrors don't just reflect your Sunday best—they capture your bedhead, your squint, that weird face you make when thinking too hard.
Show the machine your scars.
Show the machine your scars.
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The best AI mirrors don't just reflect your Sunday best—they capture your bedhead, your squint, that weird face you make when thinking too hard.
Show the machine your scars.
Show the machine your scars.
Want an AI that sounds like the actual you? Stop hiding your writing mistakes.
Those "flaws" are your fingerprints. Feed the machine your digital DNA, messy bits and all.
Those "flaws" are your fingerprints. Feed the machine your digital DNA, messy bits and all.
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Want an AI that sounds like the actual you? Stop hiding your writing mistakes.
Those "flaws" are your fingerprints. Feed the machine your digital DNA, messy bits and all.
Those "flaws" are your fingerprints. Feed the machine your digital DNA, messy bits and all.
Your authentic voice isn't in your final drafts.
It's in the messy process of getting there—the abandoned sentences, clunky phrases, and weird tangents.
That's what your AI needs to see. #AIWriting
It's in the messy process of getting there—the abandoned sentences, clunky phrases, and weird tangents.
That's what your AI needs to see. #AIWriting
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Your authentic voice isn't in your final drafts.
It's in the messy process of getting there—the abandoned sentences, clunky phrases, and weird tangents.
That's what your AI needs to see. #AIWriting
It's in the messy process of getting there—the abandoned sentences, clunky phrases, and weird tangents.
That's what your AI needs to see. #AIWriting
1/6 We're approaching AI voice training all wrong.
We curate our "best" writing samples like we're setting up a dating profile.
But authentic connection requires vulnerability.
We curate our "best" writing samples like we're setting up a dating profile.
But authentic connection requires vulnerability.
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
1/6 We're approaching AI voice training all wrong.
We curate our "best" writing samples like we're setting up a dating profile.
But authentic connection requires vulnerability.
We curate our "best" writing samples like we're setting up a dating profile.
But authentic connection requires vulnerability.
1/8 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR AI ON YOUR MESSY BITS: A thread on turning your digital detritus into effective training data 👇
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
1/8 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR AI ON YOUR MESSY BITS: A thread on turning your digital detritus into effective training data 👇
1/7 You think feeding your AI perfectly polished prose is the key to cloning your voice? Wrong. Dead wrong.
That sanitized, spell-checked content isn't you 👇
That sanitized, spell-checked content isn't you 👇
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
1/7 You think feeding your AI perfectly polished prose is the key to cloning your voice? Wrong. Dead wrong.
That sanitized, spell-checked content isn't you 👇
That sanitized, spell-checked content isn't you 👇
1/ I've been perfecting a technique for teaching AI to capture my authentic voice.
It works better than anything else I've tried. Here's my exact process: 👇
It works better than anything else I've tried. Here's my exact process: 👇
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
1/ I've been perfecting a technique for teaching AI to capture my authentic voice.
It works better than anything else I've tried. Here's my exact process: 👇
It works better than anything else I've tried. Here's my exact process: 👇
1/ Most writers struggle getting AI to capture their authentic voice. After over 2 years of experimentation, I've discovered why: we're approaching the problem backward ⤵️
November 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
1/ Most writers struggle getting AI to capture their authentic voice. After over 2 years of experimentation, I've discovered why: we're approaching the problem backward ⤵️
1/ Most people train their AI by showing it only what they want.
This creates a shallow approximation of their voice.
I've discovered a counterintuitive method that works significantly better. 🧵
This creates a shallow approximation of their voice.
I've discovered a counterintuitive method that works significantly better. 🧵
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
1/ Most people train their AI by showing it only what they want.
This creates a shallow approximation of their voice.
I've discovered a counterintuitive method that works significantly better. 🧵
This creates a shallow approximation of their voice.
I've discovered a counterintuitive method that works significantly better. 🧵
Here's your AI training checklist:
✓ Old drafts
✓ Abandoned projects
✓ Notes-to-self
✓ Track changes
✓ Margin scribbles.
The messier, the better.
✓ Old drafts
✓ Abandoned projects
✓ Notes-to-self
✓ Track changes
✓ Margin scribbles.
The messier, the better.
November 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Here's your AI training checklist:
✓ Old drafts
✓ Abandoned projects
✓ Notes-to-self
✓ Track changes
✓ Margin scribbles.
The messier, the better.
✓ Old drafts
✓ Abandoned projects
✓ Notes-to-self
✓ Track changes
✓ Margin scribbles.
The messier, the better.
AI struggles with nuance.
Solution? Show it both poles of your stylistic spectrum.
"This is me. This is NOT me."
The gap between them is where your authentic voice lives.
Solution? Show it both poles of your stylistic spectrum.
"This is me. This is NOT me."
The gap between them is where your authentic voice lives.
November 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
AI struggles with nuance.
Solution? Show it both poles of your stylistic spectrum.
"This is me. This is NOT me."
The gap between them is where your authentic voice lives.
Solution? Show it both poles of your stylistic spectrum.
"This is me. This is NOT me."
The gap between them is where your authentic voice lives.
Your AI needs to know what you hate as much as what you love.
I feed mine my normal writing AND deliberately terrible imitations.
The results improved dramatically.
I feed mine my normal writing AND deliberately terrible imitations.
The results improved dramatically.
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Your AI needs to know what you hate as much as what you love.
I feed mine my normal writing AND deliberately terrible imitations.
The results improved dramatically.
I feed mine my normal writing AND deliberately terrible imitations.
The results improved dramatically.
Most people train their AI by flooding it with their best work. This creates a weak approximation.
Want precision? Show it your stylistic dealbreakers too.
Want precision? Show it your stylistic dealbreakers too.
November 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Most people train their AI by flooding it with their best work. This creates a weak approximation.
Want precision? Show it your stylistic dealbreakers too.
Want precision? Show it your stylistic dealbreakers too.
Teaching AI your voice through contrast works because boundaries define identity.
When your system knows exactly what crosses the line, it stays comfortably within it.
When your system knows exactly what crosses the line, it stays comfortably within it.
November 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Teaching AI your voice through contrast works because boundaries define identity.
When your system knows exactly what crosses the line, it stays comfortably within it.
When your system knows exactly what crosses the line, it stays comfortably within it.
The secret to AI that captures your authentic voice?
Stylistic contrast.
Feed it your concise writing AND deliberately verbose garbage. It learns the difference fast.
Stylistic contrast.
Feed it your concise writing AND deliberately verbose garbage. It learns the difference fast.
November 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The secret to AI that captures your authentic voice?
Stylistic contrast.
Feed it your concise writing AND deliberately verbose garbage. It learns the difference fast.
Stylistic contrast.
Feed it your concise writing AND deliberately verbose garbage. It learns the difference fast.
Your AI needs negative examples as much as positive ones.
I taught mine my voice by showing it what I'd never write – corporate jargon, excessive adverbs, clichés.
Now it gets me 💪
I taught mine my voice by showing it what I'd never write – corporate jargon, excessive adverbs, clichés.
Now it gets me 💪
November 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Your AI needs negative examples as much as positive ones.
I taught mine my voice by showing it what I'd never write – corporate jargon, excessive adverbs, clichés.
Now it gets me 💪
I taught mine my voice by showing it what I'd never write – corporate jargon, excessive adverbs, clichés.
Now it gets me 💪
AI mimicry feels shallow until you teach it your boundaries.
I show mine examples labeled "MyStyle" and "NeverThisStyle" with notes explaining why.
Game-changing results.
I show mine examples labeled "MyStyle" and "NeverThisStyle" with notes explaining why.
Game-changing results.
November 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
AI mimicry feels shallow until you teach it your boundaries.
I show mine examples labeled "MyStyle" and "NeverThisStyle" with notes explaining why.
Game-changing results.
I show mine examples labeled "MyStyle" and "NeverThisStyle" with notes explaining why.
Game-changing results.
The fastest path to AI that truly writes like you?
Create a stylistic anti-self – writing that violates everything you stand for.
The contrast sharpens its understanding of your actual voice.
Create a stylistic anti-self – writing that violates everything you stand for.
The contrast sharpens its understanding of your actual voice.
November 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The fastest path to AI that truly writes like you?
Create a stylistic anti-self – writing that violates everything you stand for.
The contrast sharpens its understanding of your actual voice.
Create a stylistic anti-self – writing that violates everything you stand for.
The contrast sharpens its understanding of your actual voice.
Want your AI to truly capture your voice?
Feed it examples of writing you'd NEVER produce.
The contrast creates sharper boundaries than perfect examples ever could.
Feed it examples of writing you'd NEVER produce.
The contrast creates sharper boundaries than perfect examples ever could.
November 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Want your AI to truly capture your voice?
Feed it examples of writing you'd NEVER produce.
The contrast creates sharper boundaries than perfect examples ever could.
Feed it examples of writing you'd NEVER produce.
The contrast creates sharper boundaries than perfect examples ever could.
You think feeding your AI perfectly polished prose is the key to cloning your voice? Wrong.
Dead wrong.
Train it on your mistakes, your drafts, your 3AM notes-to-self. That's where your authentic voice lives.
Dead wrong.
Train it on your mistakes, your drafts, your 3AM notes-to-self. That's where your authentic voice lives.
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
You think feeding your AI perfectly polished prose is the key to cloning your voice? Wrong.
Dead wrong.
Train it on your mistakes, your drafts, your 3AM notes-to-self. That's where your authentic voice lives.
Dead wrong.
Train it on your mistakes, your drafts, your 3AM notes-to-self. That's where your authentic voice lives.
In an AI-saturated future, authentic strangeness will be the only thing that makes content stand out.
Your weirdness isn't a liability—it's your greatest asset.
Your weirdness isn't a liability—it's your greatest asset.
November 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
In an AI-saturated future, authentic strangeness will be the only thing that makes content stand out.
Your weirdness isn't a liability—it's your greatest asset.
Your weirdness isn't a liability—it's your greatest asset.