By Edo Segal
The thing I could not name was the tightening.
Not the excitement — I had plenty of vocabulary for that. Not the fear — I wrote whole chapters about it. The thing I could not name was the microsecond before either one arrived. The contraction in the chest that preceded the reaching for the keyboard. The leaning-forward that happened before I knew I was leaning. The moment my hand was already moving toward the prompt window and the decision to move it had been made somewhere beneath the floor of conscious thought.
I described this pattern throughout *You On AI* without understanding its mechanism. I wrote about catching myself on a transatlantic flight, writing past the point of creative engagement into the territory of compulsion. I
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