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Outsourcing my soul

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TL;DR

• I gave my content to others to write. They got the job done, but it was neither my opinion nor my voice.

• I kept asking AI for feedback. It was exhausting and I never published anything.

• I had become afraid of others' opinions. So I am fixing that by starting to share more.

Since the middle of last year, I have been much less active on X. It could seem that I was super busy, but I wasn't. I was trying to scale myself by outsourcing things that I do.

One of the things I used to do was content → my own account, Mem0 launches, and blog posts. I got convinced somehow that this was not that important a part of the job, given I was focusing on building the team & growing the product. So I tried to outsource this responsibility.

But in the end, I realized that I had outsourced my soul.

Here is how it happened.

As Mem0 progressed, the content responsibility increased. I experimented by first giving it to a colleague, and then a few others. Each one of them could get the job done, but it was neither my own voice nor my tone.

They would use something that I said in a meeting, in Slack in a different context, or in a chat with me, and try to extrapolate that into a post. It felt good when it came out as a post, but I could tell just by glancing that it was not who I am.

So instead of stopping here, I went further and worked with a few companies. There are a lot of companies that do founder social media as a job. They seemed a better option because they have the entire process. They can efficiently capture your previous posts (thanks to AI agents), build a deep profile about you from the internet, and then do some customer research and come up with a few ideas.

It seemed glamorous, and I experimented. But the same problem of not being authentic. It seemed like a different version of me, who always talks in well-rhyming sentences.

I never talk like that. I write short sentences. I use simple words.

After both these experiments, I decided to stop everything and do it myself. I tried various times, but I failed.

I failed not because I couldn't write or find time. I failed because now I had outsourced my thinking to probabilistic machines who were giving feedback right, left and center about what to improve, why it was not a good post, and what I was missing.

Oh man. It was so exhausting. Thanks to my habit of using both Claude & ChatGPT and asking them again and again, "Are you sure?"

I never ended up finishing any blog & publishing it. They are still in my AI threads.

A few days ago, as I was deeply reflecting on my progress so far as an entrepreneur, I was reading all my ideas and thoughts in Notion, and in ChatGPT / Claude by asking, "What are some unfinished blog posts?" It gave me a lot of posts. I was surprised & sad to see that these are still drafts.

But something deeper triggered me.

When I was moving to Silicon Valley in 2024, I was naive & would straight away say what I wanted to. I was more of a tinkerer and builder. Maybe because at that time the burden of being a founder was not there. And it's there now.

I, in my imaginary world, have added so much weight of being a founder that I have become afraid of sharing my ideas / thoughts with the world.

But why? Are those ideas bad? Are those thoughts not worth reading?

I thought a lot and couldn't find an answer.

As the world is changing so fast, each of us has an opportunity to be a better version every hour, every minute, and every second. So then, even if my ideas are bad, if I share them, you all will help me (hopefully) get better by giving feedback. If the ideas are not worth reading, it's fine. These are my ideas, and everyone is different.

If any future hire doesn't join the company just because my ideas and thinking don't align with theirs, it's good. We both saved each other time.

But I gotta share.

So, what's a better post than this for accepting it and sharing it with you all?

One very important change that I made in writing this post: I used pen and paper and wrote it in a room with no laptop or phone. And in publishing this, the only help that I took from AI was with grammar fixes and punctuation fixes.

It's better this way, because it's me writing it, in my own style, with my own hands.

Just to make myself accountable, and better, I am thinking of starting an X group where we make each other accountable for publishing more unique takes. There will be no AI-related discussions or promotions. You will remain a part of the group if you publish at least one post a month.

Comment or DM me.

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3:58 PM · Oct 5, 2026

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