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
9/ Include annotations like:
"Bukowski_Rawness"
"Gladwell_ExtendedAnalogies"
"Sorkin_Dialogue"
"NIN_IndustrialMood"
They help your AI understand not just WHAT influences you, but HOW it influences you.
"Bukowski_Rawness"
"Gladwell_ExtendedAnalogies"
"Sorkin_Dialogue"
"NIN_IndustrialMood"
They help your AI understand not just WHAT influences you, but HOW it influences you.
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
9/ Include annotations like:
"Bukowski_Rawness"
"Gladwell_ExtendedAnalogies"
"Sorkin_Dialogue"
"NIN_IndustrialMood"
They help your AI understand not just WHAT influences you, but HOW it influences you.
"Bukowski_Rawness"
"Gladwell_ExtendedAnalogies"
"Sorkin_Dialogue"
"NIN_IndustrialMood"
They help your AI understand not just WHAT influences you, but HOW it influences you.
8/ Implementation tip: Create a document with excerpts from content that's influenced you.
Add annotations explaining what elements you've incorporated into your own style, consciously or not.
Add annotations explaining what elements you've incorporated into your own style, consciously or not.
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
8/ Implementation tip: Create a document with excerpts from content that's influenced you.
Add annotations explaining what elements you've incorporated into your own style, consciously or not.
Add annotations explaining what elements you've incorporated into your own style, consciously or not.
7/ The most accurate AI models of your voice won't come from feeding it more of your writing.
They'll come from feeding it what shaped your writing – your "media diet" and how you've metabolized it.
They'll come from feeding it what shaped your writing – your "media diet" and how you've metabolized it.
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
7/ The most accurate AI models of your voice won't come from feeding it more of your writing.
They'll come from feeding it what shaped your writing – your "media diet" and how you've metabolized it.
They'll come from feeding it what shaped your writing – your "media diet" and how you've metabolized it.
6/ Try this: Track your media consumption for a week.
What do you read? Watch? Listen to?
Now analyze your content from the following week. You'll find echoes, samples, references – conscious and unconscious.
What do you read? Watch? Listen to?
Now analyze your content from the following week. You'll find echoes, samples, references – conscious and unconscious.
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
6/ Try this: Track your media consumption for a week.
What do you read? Watch? Listen to?
Now analyze your content from the following week. You'll find echoes, samples, references – conscious and unconscious.
What do you read? Watch? Listen to?
Now analyze your content from the following week. You'll find echoes, samples, references – conscious and unconscious.
5/ So why are you only training your AI on the synthesis, not the ingredients?
It can't understand your voice if it doesn't understand what shaped it.
It can't understand your voice if it doesn't understand what shaped it.
November 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
5/ So why are you only training your AI on the synthesis, not the ingredients?
It can't understand your voice if it doesn't understand what shaped it.
It can't understand your voice if it doesn't understand what shaped it.
4/ Language isn't created; it's inherited.
Your "unique voice" is actually a complex synthesis of everything you've consumed, processed through your particular brain with its particular experiences and connections.
Your "unique voice" is actually a complex synthesis of everything you've consumed, processed through your particular brain with its particular experiences and connections.
November 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
4/ Language isn't created; it's inherited.
Your "unique voice" is actually a complex synthesis of everything you've consumed, processed through your particular brain with its particular experiences and connections.
Your "unique voice" is actually a complex synthesis of everything you've consumed, processed through your particular brain with its particular experiences and connections.
3/ Think about the last article that made you say "damn, I wish I'd written that." What specifically grabbed you?
The metaphors?
The sentence structure?
The argumentative style?
Those are the elements you're probably already borrowing.
The metaphors?
The sentence structure?
The argumentative style?
Those are the elements you're probably already borrowing.
November 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
3/ Think about the last article that made you say "damn, I wish I'd written that." What specifically grabbed you?
The metaphors?
The sentence structure?
The argumentative style?
Those are the elements you're probably already borrowing.
The metaphors?
The sentence structure?
The argumentative style?
Those are the elements you're probably already borrowing.
2/ We're walking remixes.
The podcasts in our ears, the Netflix shows before bed, the articles we read on lunch breaks – they're all being sampled, remixed, and repurposed in our creative outputs.
The podcasts in our ears, the Netflix shows before bed, the articles we read on lunch breaks – they're all being sampled, remixed, and repurposed in our creative outputs.
November 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
2/ We're walking remixes.
The podcasts in our ears, the Netflix shows before bed, the articles we read on lunch breaks – they're all being sampled, remixed, and repurposed in our creative outputs.
The podcasts in our ears, the Netflix shows before bed, the articles we read on lunch breaks – they're all being sampled, remixed, and repurposed in our creative outputs.
6/6 So go ahead. Feed the machine your digital bedhead.
Your authentic voice isn't wearing a suit—it's in sweatpants eating cereal straight from the box.
And that's the version worth replicating. https://bsky.app/profile/nickquick.bsky.social/post/3m5chwdyoxr2q
Your authentic voice isn't wearing a suit—it's in sweatpants eating cereal straight from the box.
And that's the version worth replicating. https://bsky.app/profile/nickquick.bsky.social/post/3m5chwdyoxr2q
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
6/6 So go ahead. Feed the machine your digital bedhead.
Your authentic voice isn't wearing a suit—it's in sweatpants eating cereal straight from the box.
And that's the version worth replicating. https://bsky.app/profile/nickquick.bsky.social/post/3m5chwdyoxr2q
Your authentic voice isn't wearing a suit—it's in sweatpants eating cereal straight from the box.
And that's the version worth replicating. https://bsky.app/profile/nickquick.bsky.social/post/3m5chwdyoxr2q
5/6 When training an AI on your voice, you're not trying to create an idealized version of yourself.
You're creating a reflection that captures your essence.
You're creating a reflection that captures your essence.
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
5/6 When training an AI on your voice, you're not trying to create an idealized version of yourself.
You're creating a reflection that captures your essence.
You're creating a reflection that captures your essence.
4/6 Same with writing voice.
Your overuse of em-dashes, your tendency to start sentences with "Look," your weird food metaphors—these aren't flaws. They're your signature.
Your overuse of em-dashes, your tendency to start sentences with "Look," your weird food metaphors—these aren't flaws. They're your signature.
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
4/6 Same with writing voice.
Your overuse of em-dashes, your tendency to start sentences with "Look," your weird food metaphors—these aren't flaws. They're your signature.
Your overuse of em-dashes, your tendency to start sentences with "Look," your weird food metaphors—these aren't flaws. They're your signature.
3/6 Think about your favorite people. What makes them recognizable isn't their perfection.
It's their specific quirks, hesitations, and verbal tics.
It's their specific quirks, hesitations, and verbal tics.
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
3/6 Think about your favorite people. What makes them recognizable isn't their perfection.
It's their specific quirks, hesitations, and verbal tics.
It's their specific quirks, hesitations, and verbal tics.
2/6 The psychology is simple: your thought process—how you navigate from confusion to clarity—is more uniquely "you" than your polished conclusions could ever be.
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
2/6 The psychology is simple: your thought process—how you navigate from confusion to clarity—is more uniquely "you" than your polished conclusions could ever be.
8/8 The result? An AI that knows not just what you say, but how you get there.
One that captures your voice with all its beautiful imperfections. Because perfect is boring. Messy is magic. https://bsky.app/profile/nickquick.bsky.social/post/3m5ca4dzobp2f
One that captures your voice with all its beautiful imperfections. Because perfect is boring. Messy is magic. https://bsky.app/profile/nickquick.bsky.social/post/3m5ca4dzobp2f
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
8/8 The result? An AI that knows not just what you say, but how you get there.
One that captures your voice with all its beautiful imperfections. Because perfect is boring. Messy is magic. https://bsky.app/profile/nickquick.bsky.social/post/3m5ca4dzobp2f
One that captures your voice with all its beautiful imperfections. Because perfect is boring. Messy is magic. https://bsky.app/profile/nickquick.bsky.social/post/3m5ca4dzobp2f
7/8 Example: Instead of "Leveraging synergistic platforms maximizes stakeholder value" (ugh), feed it your whole journey to finding that clearer, simpler final version.
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
7/8 Example: Instead of "Leveraging synergistic platforms maximizes stakeholder value" (ugh), feed it your whole journey to finding that clearer, simpler final version.
6/8 Iterate and observe.
Train a model. See what it produces.
Does it capture your quirks?
If not, adjust the mix. Add more early drafts.
Train a model. See what it produces.
Does it capture your quirks?
If not, adjust the mix. Add more early drafts.
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
6/8 Iterate and observe.
Train a model. See what it produces.
Does it capture your quirks?
If not, adjust the mix. Add more early drafts.
Train a model. See what it produces.
Does it capture your quirks?
If not, adjust the mix. Add more early drafts.
5/8 Don't just use mistakes. Blend them with your finished pieces.
Let the AI see the journey from raw idea to polished output.
The contrast is crucial.
Let the AI see the journey from raw idea to polished output.
The contrast is crucial.
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
5/8 Don't just use mistakes. Blend them with your finished pieces.
Let the AI see the journey from raw idea to polished output.
The contrast is crucial.
Let the AI see the journey from raw idea to polished output.
The contrast is crucial.