Deliberation, Not Debate: A Casual Conversation on Writing Your Story with AI Reflections on Session One of a Four-Part Series

Deliberation, Not Debate: A Casual Conversation on Writing Your Story with AI Reflections on Session One of a Four-Part Series

February 13, 2026 · 33 min

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Paul Truesdell discusses the importance of qualitative analysis in storytelling and invites listeners to join a series on using AI for personal writing.

Deliberation, Not Debate: A Casual Conversation on Writing Your Story with AI Reflections on Session One of a Four-Part Series By Paul Truesdell This piece is written for those who attended the first session of our four-part series on using artificial intelligence to write your own personal stories. It is also written for the lady who arrived a bit late and missed the handout, for those who could not attend but wish they had, and for anyone considering joining us for session two. Consider this your on-ramp. Consider this your invitation to keep going. — — — One of the things I enjoy most in life, beyond doing the talking myself, is listening. Really listening. Not the kind of listening where you are just waiting for the other person to stop so you can say your piece, but the kind where you are genuinely trying to understand the why behind what someone is telling you. In my world, the why is what we call the qualitative analysis. You have your quantitative side, of course, the facts and figures, the hard numbers. And those numbers tell a powerful story. But sometimes the numbers alone do not tell the full story. You can have a situation where one plus one plainly equals two, and…

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