There's a version of "using AI" that feels wrong, and it's the one where you paste it in and hit post without reading it. There's another version that actually works, and it's the one where AI does the unglamorous 70% and you do the 30% that makes it sound like a person wrote it — because a person did. 🧍♀️
That split is the whole trick. You're not asking AI to BE you. You're asking it to get you to the part where being you is easy.
Here's what that split actually looks like 👇
🧱 AI BUILDS THE SCAFFOLDING. Structure, a rough opening, a list of points you'd probably want to hit. It's the part that used to take you an hour of staring, now it takes thirty seconds.
✂️ YOU DO THE EDIT PASS. Cut what's generic. Add the specific detail only you'd know — the client's actual name (changed, obviously), the thing that really happened this week, the joke you'd actually make. This is the part AI can't do, and it's also the fastest part once the scaffolding exists.
🫶 YOU DO THE FEELINGS PART. Warmth, dry humor, the little parenthetical aside — that's you, every time, no exceptions. AI can approximate tone, but the actual texture of your voice is yours to add, and it takes way less time when you're not also inventing the sentence from scratch.
Draft fast, edit like yourself. That's the whole workflow. 💜
🎯 YOUR ONE THING: Take the next thing AI drafts for you and do exactly one pass: cut anything that could've been written about anyone, and add one detail that could only be about you.