Will you dare to dream?
I’m haunted by most people’s reality with corporate AI. It creates worlds.
A year ago I stood at the summit of modern corporate life.
Three hundred and forty folks reported up to me.
Their worlds in some small way shaped by my decisions, my vision, my voice.
I knew enough to navigate, how to delegate, how to hold trust gently but firmly.
My calendar was a fortress that stood tall. It occupied my energy 10+ hours a day.
I lived in spreadsheets and strategy meetings, nurturing the business but seldom myself.
Tasks built my skills but didn’t awaken new dreams.
Then the shift.
I ejected from the corporate ladder and into the unknown.
I was completely unsure of what was next for the first time in my professional life.
Despite many misgivings I let curiosity and the whisper of possibility help guide me. Doors made possible by AI swung open before me and I walked through. No, I sprinted.
Awaken; return to yourself. Now, no longer asleep, knowing they were only dreams, clear-headed again, treat everything around you as a dream. — VI. 36
In just twelve months my world has transformed.
Boundaries fell away. Impossibility became daily reality. Pent up ideas no longer linger as interesting but out of reach fantasies.
They are tangible breathing creations that I build in hours instead of months or never at all.
Every morning is an invitation to imagine, every sunset is material proof that dreams do materialize.
Do you realize what’s happening right now?
The power we’ve stumbled into?
For decades, creating has been slow, painstaking, accessible to few. Now, it’s as simple as speaking ideas into existence. We can rent the entire internet’s intelligence for $20 a month. And use it to amplify our imagination turning words into worlds.
English is executable magic.
I’m haunted that so many people don’t yet see it.
Their vision is obscured by routine. Their experience confined to dull corporate AI. Tools that summarize meetings and format slides but hide the wonder beneath the surface.
It’s a Clippy 2.0 hell of horseless carriage bolt-ons that poisons expectations.
Most haven’t felt the thrill of instant creation, haven’t tasted the freedom of uncanny creative potential.
The primary use case is not just “productivity”. It’s not bullet points and meeting summaries. Or generating soulless marketing copy littered with the now accursed “em dash”.
AI’s application represents your voice made powerful and your imagination made real.
Tools like my oh-so-beloved Cursor aren’t just software. They can become extensions of you, channels for your deepest dreams and concrete bridges from thought to reality.
Imagine waking up every day, jumping out of bed and knowing that as a knowledge worker the only limit is your own courage.
Imagine a world where your ideas with enough practice become other’s reality.
This is now, here, today. We stand on the precipice of boundless creativity. And all it asks of you is to dare.
Dare to believe you’re capable.
Dare to grasp this moment.
Dare to speak your desires into existence.
The world needs your ideas.
Dare to dream.