The Creator Mindset

The Creator Mindset

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06/02/2026

I watched a guy at the airport today spend 15 minutes trying to get his “smart” suitcase to connect to Bluetooth, while dragging it manually the entire time.

We’ve officially entered the era where technology creates problems it promised to solve.

At this point:

• My refrigerator sends notifications.
• My toaster updates itself overnight.
• My WHOOP tells me I’m stressed, which is usually because of the notifications from my refrigerator and toaster.

In this keynote clip, I talk about how our overreliance on technology has gotten completely out of hand.

Somewhere along the way, “making life easier” turned into, “Please reset your password using a code sent to another device you no longer own.”

Maybe innovation isn’t always about adding more tech.

Maybe sometimes it’s about remembering how to think creatively again without it. (Posted from a phone that autocorrected half this post into nonsense.)

05/26/2026

My latest for / Forbes is for everyone who thinks they’re ahead because they use AI.

They’re not:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nirbashan/2026/05/24/why-creativity-is-the-only-competitive-advantage-left-in-the-age-of-ai/

You don’t have a competitive advantage because you opened ChatGPT or Claude before someone else did. We all have the same tools now. Same prompts. Same outputs. Same recycled “genius.”

AI is rapidly becoming the new calculator — useful, accessible, and completely democratized.

So what happens when everyone sounds equally "smart"?

Creativity becomes the advantage. Innovation becomes the separator. Original thinking now becomes priceless!

The people who win next won’t be the ones using AI the most. They’ll be the ones thinking beyond it.

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