Sansi, something has been bothering me lately.
Now that we have AI, public knowledge — the stuff everyone already agrees on — is worth less and less.
The private experience I've built up, nobody else can verify it. Why should they believe me?
I've been chewing on this myself lately. A few thoughts — not sure they're all right.
To get people to act on what you say, I've seen roughly three routes: results, reputation, and evidence.
Start with results. When you shop online, don't you check the sales numbers first?
When you pick a personal trainer, don't you glance at their own physique first?
True — a trainer's body is their billboard.
Same for running an account.
A creator with 100k followers talking about growth can be utterly ordinary and still get instant credit, because the results are right there.
But that's circular — if I had 100k followers, I wouldn't be agonizing over this.
A beginner only has tiny, unimpressive results that aren't worth showing.
Ha, fair — I got stuck right there too.
So step back to reputation: people who've known you long enough know what kind of person you've been, and they naturally believe a little more of what you say.
Got it — like when I ask the group chat which hotpot place is good, one coworker saying "I've been there, it's fine" beats ten food-review videos saved in my bookmarks.
But how long does it take to build up that kind of trust?
Tell me about it.
That's why I lean more and more toward the third: evidence.
Simply put, you do the "verification" work yourself, up front.
Say I claim "platform A pays better than platform B." Instead of just asserting it, post the same content on both for a month and put the numbers on the table.
Or take why beauty bloggers love half-face comparisons: same person, makeup on one side and not the other. That beats any copy.
Doesn't that blow up the workload?
It does. I'm not telling you to do it for every sentence.
But flip it around: precisely because it's a hassle, few people bother — and that's what makes your experience valuable.
AI can generate knowledge by the bucket in a second, but "I actually did this, and here's the data" — that might be worth even more.