Chasing Excellence
Chasing Excellence

Chasing Excellence

The Discomfort of Thinking for Yourself

Daily Chase #169

Dec 25, 2025
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Our friend Chris Irwin told us a story that should make us all pause.

Seven hours on a plane. No wifi. No AI writing assistant. Just a laptop and his book manuscript that needed editing.

And it was uncomfortable.

That moment of realization - that sitting down to work without the crutch of AI to help restructure sentences and…

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